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declensionism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

/dɪˈklɛnʃənɪzəm/ (UK)

Etymology

From declension + -ism.

Meanings

(uncountable) A belief in a declining trend in a history.
- By breaking free of it, historians could shed the dualisms that now entrap them, and escape the declensionism - the longing for the lost alternative 2002, Melvyn Stokes, The state of U.S. history, page 74:

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