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Descension :: Descension (n.) The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.

Gradualness :: Gradualness (n.) The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.

Theatre :: Theatre (n.) That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater..

Retrogradation :: Retrogradation (n.) The act of retrograding, or moving backward..

Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading..

Polymorphism :: Polymorphism (n.) Existence in many forms; the coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents..

Fine :: Fine (a.) To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually..

Gradation :: Gradation (n.) Any degree or relative position in an order or series.

Diminution :: Diminution (n.) The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement..

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc..

Mode :: Mode (n.) Variety; gradation; degree.

Wretch :: Wretch (v. t.) One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch..

Descent :: Descent (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

Self-degradation :: Self-degradation (n.) The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded..

Degradement :: Degradement (n.) Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.

Drawplate :: Drawplate (n.) A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated..

Epiploce :: Epiploce (n.) A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued, but advanced them..

Gradation :: Gradation (n.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.

Abjection :: Abjection (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.

Retrogradation :: Retrogradation (n.) The state of being retrograde; decline.

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