Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A declivity; a gradient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient.
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- noun
inclination ;ascent ordescent ; agradient
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nepe's choices evinced a pro - clivity for naughtiness that would have distressed her mother; apparently the child felt free to express herself more openly in the company of her uncle.
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Nepe's choices evinced a pro - clivity for naughtiness that would have distressed her mother; apparently the child felt free to express herself more openly in the company of her uncle.
Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989
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Thel'e Alps compole the lummit of that chain of mountains called Severnoi, whole de - clivity toward the E and s confilts of lower mountains, deferts, forefts, fens, and lakes.
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On the de - clivity of one of them Hands Villa Vieja, with its elevated cattle, famous for hot fprings.
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On the de - clivity of one of them ftands Villa Vieja, with its elevated cafUe, famous for hot fprings.
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In fome parts the declivity is fo great, that the mules can fcarce keep their footing; and in others the ac - clivity is equally difficult.
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This was not the only point of the rock the duke de Crillon threatened; on the Mediterranean side, the dc clivity, though so steep as lo be almost perpendicular, docs not continue so t ') the sin** face of the earth.
mollusque commented on the word clivity
Gradient or clivity, denotes the proportionate ascent or descent of the several
planes on a rail-road...
--H. S. Tanner, 1840, A Description of the Canals and Rail Roads of the United States, p. 249
May 3, 2008