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declensionism
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English
Etymology
From declension + -ism.
Pronunciation
Noun
declensionism (uncountable)
- A belief in a declining trend in a history.
- 2002, Melvyn Stokes, The state of U.S. history, page 74:
- By breaking free of it, historians could shed the dualisms that now entrap them, and escape the declensionism - the longing for the lost alternative
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