decl.

Noun

declension (countable and uncountable, plural declensions)

1. A falling off, decay or descent.
   • Refinement of feeling, intellectual tastes, and a noble hospitality, were among the features of his character; and hoary years brought no mental declension, and drew no shade over the ardent affections by which he was distinguished, and in whose reciprocity, was his undeclining solace.1845, Lydia Sigourney, Scenes in my Native Land, The Great Oak of Geneseo, page 86
2. The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
3. The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
   • a page full of declensions
4. A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
   • In Latin, 'amicus' belongs to the second declension. Most second-declension nouns end in '-i' in the genitive singular and '-um' in the accusative singular.

Noun

declaration (countable and uncountable, plural declarations)

1. An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.
   • The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair […].1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

   Synonyms:

   avowal, notice, statement

2. (archaic) Specifically, a declaration of love.
   • I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
3. A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.

   Synonyms:

   notice, statement

4. The act or process of declaring.

   Synonyms:

   notice, profession

5. The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
6. In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.

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