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单词 declinist
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declinistn.

Etymology: < decline n. + -ist suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: deˈclinist.
(See quot. 1831.)Apparently an isolated use.
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1831 W. Whewell in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 122 [Dr. Brewster] has now chosen to fancy that we are all banded together to oppose his favourite doctrine of the decline of science; though the only professor who has written at all on the subject is Babbage, the leader of the Declinists.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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