Declinature vs Declination - What's the difference?
declinature | declination |
The act of declining or refusing.
(legal) The legal privilege of a party, in certain circumstances, to decline the jurisdiction of a judge before whom the party's case sits.
(legal) Recusal.
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At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.
At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the earth and the equatorial plane.
A refusal.
* Stow
(grammar) Declension.
(archaic) The act or state of bending downward; inclination.
(archaic) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.
* Francis Bacon
* Waller
(archaic) Deviation.
* Bentley
* South
As nouns the difference between declinature and declination
is that declinature is the act of declining or refusing while declination is at a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.declinature
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(en noun)declination
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(wikipedia declination)Noun
(en noun)- the queen's declination from marriage
- declination of the head
- the declination of monarchy
- Summer is not looked on as a time of declination or decay.
- the declination of atoms in their descent
- every declination and violation of the rules