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declivity
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tags: [geology]
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Definition:a downward slope
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I resolved to dig into the surface of the earth, and so make a declivity: this I began, and it cost me a prodigious deal of pains (but who grudge pains who have their deliverance in view?);
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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He took my elbow to help me out of the declivity, and we set off up the slope.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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But before the obstacle they were approaching, Vronsky began working at the reins, anxious to avoid having to take the outer circle, and swiftly passed Mahotin just upon the declivity.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Siddhartha wandered along a strange, twisted path of this last and most base declivity through a game of dice.
Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Translated by Hilda Rosner), p.79 (1951)
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