Chapter Deceive to Defer of D by Soule's Synonymes

2. Rhetorical, grandiloquent, inflated, bombastic, swelling, pompous, turgid, pretentious, high-flown, high-sounding, fustian.

Declaration, n.

1. Affirmation, assertion, asseveration, averment, protestation, avowal.

2. Proclamation, publication, public or official announcement.

Declarative, a. See declaratory.

Declaratory, a.

1. Expressive, affirmative, enunciative, enunciatory, assertive, declarative.

2. Explanatory, expository, declarative.

Declare, v. a. Affirm, assert, aver, asseverate, state, proclaim, publish, promulgate, communicate, announce, utter, make known.

Declare, v. n. Make a declaration, come out, pronounce, proclaim one’s self.

Declension, n.

1. Decline, deterioration, degeneracy, decay, diminution, falling off.

2. (Gram.) Inflection, variation; mode of inflection.

3. Refusal, declination, declinature, nonacceptance.

Declination, n.

1. Bending, inclination.

2. Deterioration. See declension, 1.

3. Deviation, departure, oblique movement.

4. Declinature. See declension, 3.

Declinature, n. Refusal, non-acceptance, declination, declension.

Decline, v. n.

1. Lean downward, incline, slope.