declivityn.
/dɪˈklɪvɪti/ 1. Downward slope or inclination (of a hill, etc.).
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] > downward
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a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xiv. 120 It is the propertie of water, euer to fall that way, where it findeth decliuitie.
1667 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 361 With what declivity the Water runs out of the Euxine Sea into the Propontis.
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV lxvii. 36 Upon a mild declivity of hill.
1860 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 301 The declivity of most of the streets keeps them remarkably clean.
2. concrete. A downward slope.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > downwards > a downward slope (except of hills, etc.)
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1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 255 They will not flow unless upon a Declivity.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. i. 6 A grove, which stood on the brow of a gentle declivity.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. viii. 58 I could see the stones..jumping down the declivities.
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