Descend vs Inherent - What's the difference?
descend | inherent |
To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward
(poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
(with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self
To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance.
(anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
(music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
Naturally as part or consequence of something.
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As a verb descend
is to pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward.As an adjective inherent is
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The rain descended , and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.
- We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.
- [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended . .
- And on the suitors let thy wrath descend . .
- he descended from his high estate
- the beggar may descend from a prince
- a crown descends to the heir
- they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder
- But never tears his cheek descended . .
Synonyms
* go downAntonyms
* ascend * go upDerived terms
* descenderinherent
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(-)- You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law.
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