Associations to the word «Decrescent»

Noun

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Wiktionary

DECRESCENT, adjective. Becoming gradually less; diminishing.
DECRESCENT, adjective. Waning.
DECRESCENT, noun. (heraldiccharge) A crescent oriented with horns turned to sinister (pointing right).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope