"declinist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2022 June 12, David Edgerton, “Yes, we’re in a bad way. But to wallow in myths of British ‘declinism’ won’t help us thrive”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Rather than accept this, declinists often explained things that did not happen, with explanations that did not work, based on bad history. Thus declinists insist that British R&D has always been low, the City always over-mighty, the country always in the grip of empire, the state under the imaginative control of classicists and historians rather than technocrats, that industry never stood a chance.",
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        "A subscriber to declinism."
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      "form": "more declinist",
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          "text": "Against a background of almost paralytic gloom and declinist talk, Vienna tried to take on Napoleon, breifly bhecked him at Aspern-Essling and then went down to absolute defeat at Wagram […].",
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          "text": "As our first declinist candidate for president, Donald J Trump did at least express something new and true about the nature of our country.",
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