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(an act of) coming or going down

moving down; lowering

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1) the act, process, of causing power, feeling etc to exist; a single stage in family descent (generation)

2) in the direct line of descent (from father to son etc) (lineal)

DESCENT as in Wiktionary
DESCENT as in Wikipedia