English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /dɪˈklaɪnɪŋ/
    • (file)
  • Hyphenation: de‧clin‧ing
  • Rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ

Verb edit

declining

  1. present participle and gerund of decline

Noun edit

declining (plural declinings)

  1. decline
    • c. 1572', John Whitgift, Admonition to the Parliament
      For they had no civil magistrate which might correct and reform those declinings when they happened.