descent

• the descendants of one individual
• a downward slope or bend
• a movement downward
• properties attributable to your ancestry
• the act of changing your location in a downward direction
• the kinship relation between an individual and the individual´s progenitors
• The act of descending, or passing downward
• Incursion
• Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc
• Derivation, as from an ancestor
• Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line
• Inclination downward
• That which is descended
• A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation
• Lowest place
• A passing from a higher to a lower tone

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