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English
Etymology
From Middle English descencioun, from Old French descension, from Latin dēscēnsiō, dēscēnsiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
descension (countable and uncountable, plural descensions)
- (now rare) Descent; the act of descending.
Death is followed by either ascension into a higher plane or descension into a lower plane.
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :From a God to a Bull? a heavy descension. It was Jove's case.
- (astronomy, obsolete) The descent below the horizon of a celestial body.
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, VI.3:For in regard of time (as we elsewhere declare) the stars do vary their longitudes, and consequently the times of their ascension and descension.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēscēnsiō, dēscēnsiōnem.
Noun
descension oblique singular, f (oblique plural descensions, nominative singular descension, nominative plural descensions)
- descent
Antonyms
Descendants