Definitions
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- adverb In a descending manner.
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- adverb In a
descending manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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· Sorted posts descendingly (Newest on top and oldest beneath) · In multimedia perspective I have just seen only pictures not any video or audio-visual presentation either any flash animated objects.
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From this progressively and descendingly increasing unfreedom there is no redemption within the sphere of historical reality, but only yon-side of history, through death. —
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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· The generated code allows users to sort data by any field ascendingly or descendingly.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010
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When the main troops ar-five, as it were, "and his supercilious tone suggested that he was smiling con-descendingly at Dorothy.
Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998
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