Definition of: descent

(di·sent′) noun
1. The act of descending.
2. Decline; deterioration; fall.
3. A descending way; declivity; slope.
4. Lineage; birth; extraction.
5. Descendants; issue.
6. A hostile visitation; invasion.
7. The transmission of an estate by inheritance.
8. A generation in the scale of genealogy. See synonyms under AFFINITY, KIN. [<F descente <descendre. See DESCEND.]

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"descent" has the frequency of use of 0.0024% on en.wikipedia.org.

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Definition of: descent

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