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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
decline .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On receipt of this message he replied: I see that our: dominion draweth already to its end, and our power declineth.
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From this sprang the growth of Untruth and its confusion with Truth, wherewith man was created and with the love whereof his nature had been made; and when man came to this pass, he declined from the Truth with disobedience, and whoso declineth from the Truth falleth into Falsehood.
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Law and to preserve the rights of humanity; and it fitteth him to unite Pen and Sword; for whoso declineth from what Pen hath written his feet slip and the King shall rectify his error with the sharp
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My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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My days are like a shadow that declineth, and I am withered like grass.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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This is he my hest declineth, the unheedy, the runaway.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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This is he my hest declineth, the unheedy, the runaway.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
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