英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛnʃən/
• 韻: -ɛnʃən

名詞

descension (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 descensions)

1. (now rare) Descent; the act of descending. [from 15th c.]

   Death is followed by either ascension into a higher plane or descension into a lower plane.

   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene v]:

     From a God to a Bull? a heavy descension. It was Jove's case.