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Meaning of descent
- The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
- Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
- Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.
- Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
- Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
- Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
- That which is descended; descendants; issue.
- A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
- Lowest place; extreme downward place.
- A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
Crossword clue for descent
- Ancestry
- Ancestry is respectable. Point taken!
- Ancestry seen throughout decades, centuries
- Coming down
- Downhill section
- Downward journey
- Downward slope
- Drop of French perfume
- Lineage
- Moral decline
- Plane’s landing approach
- Route down from peak
- Sudden attack
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