Decline vs Withsay - What's the difference?
decline | withsay |
Downward movement, fall.(rfex)
A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.(rfex)
(senseid)A weakening.(rfex)
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A reduction or diminution of activity.
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To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
To become weaker or worse.
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
* Thomson
* Spenser
To cause to decrease or diminish.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Burton
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
* Bible, Psalms cxix. 157
To refuse, forbear.
* Massinger
* , chapter=7
, title= To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.
* Ascham
(by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
(American football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
To speak against someone or something.
# (label) To renounce, to give up.
#* Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840), 34:
#* (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Seconde Nonnes Tale) in the (tales of Caunterbury) , 447:
# To contradict or deny.
#* (Ancrene Riwle) (Cleopatra C vi), 68:
#* in W. P. Baildon, Select cases in Chancery, A.D. 1364 to 1471 (1896), 136:
#* 1530 , (John Palsgrave), Lesclarcissement , 783/2:
# To gainsay, to oppose in speech (and by extension writing).
#* (w), 139:
#* 1922 , (James Joyce), :
# To forbid, to refuse to allow, give, or permit.
#* Merlin (1899), XIV 204:
#* St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student , VI f xiii:
# To decline, to refuse to do or accept.
#* (Ancrene Riwle) (Cleopatra C vi), 175:
#* 1402 , (Thomas Hoccleve), Letters of Cupid , 108:
#* , Bk.XIII, Ch.iij:
#* ordinance in Collection of Ordinances of the Royal Household - 1327–1694 (1790), 372:
#* 2000 , , Morte D'Urban :
As verbs the difference between decline and withsay
is that decline is to move downwards, to fall, to drop while withsay is to speak against someone or something.As a noun decline
is downward movement, fall.decline
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
Antonyms
* inclineVerb
(declin)- in melancholy deep, with head declined
- And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste / His weary wagon to the western vale.
- You have declined his means.
- He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it.
- a line that declines from straightness
- conduct that declines from sound morals
- Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
- Could I decline this dreadful hour?
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
- after the first declining of a noun and a verb
- (Shakespeare)
- The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.
Derived terms
* declension * declinationExternal links
* * * ----withsay
English
Verb
- Terrena desideria respuentes, eardlico lvsto wiðsæcgende .
- Euery]] cristen wight shal han penaunce
But if that he his [[Christendom, cristendom withseye .
- ?ef an mon...deð swa muche mis. þet hit beo se open sunne. þet he hit ne ma?e nanesweis allunge wið seggen .
- He withseieth not the matier]] conteigned in the [[said, seid bille of complainte.
- Sythe]] I have sayd it, I [[will, wyll never withsay it.
- Bi þo da?es luuede herod]]es...his wif, and binam hire him, and Seint [[John the Baptist, Iohan hit wið seide .
- Let the lewd with faith and fervour worship. With will will we withstand, withsay .
- I will in no wise with-sey that ye requere.
- I wyll]] not withsaye thy [[desire, desyre.
- Þeo...wið seggeð þe grant þer of wið an wille heorte.
- She...So lyberal]] ys, she wol no [[wight, wyght with-sey .
- ‘Sir,’ he seyde]], ‘I myght nat withsey myne unclis [[will, wyll.’
- This is in noe wise to bee withsaid , for it is the King's honour.
- He was mild to good men of God and stark beyond all bounds to those who withsaid his will.