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declivity

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9 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈklɪvɪti/Part of speech nounSorted cdeiiltvyStarts with DEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a downward slope or bend

Word origin

from dēclivis (“a sloping downward”), from de (“down”) + clīvus (“a slope”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱleywo-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”) (English lean).

Used in a sentence

  • The Declivity was ſo ſmall, that I walked near a mile before I got to the Shore, which I conjectur'd was about eight a-clock in the Evening.
  • […]a line was measured down the hill on the right of 420, and the angle of declivity is 23°, which shortens the line 33 links;[…].
  • A rocky cliff appeared, mounds of turned–up earth by the shore, houses on a hill, others with iron roofs, amongst a waste of excavations, or hanging to the declivity.

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