"descension" meaning in English

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          "text": "Death is followed by either ascension into a higher plane or descension into a lower plane.",
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          "text": "From a God to a Bull? a heavy descension. It was Jove's case.",
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        "Descent; the act of descending."
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        "(now rare) Descent; the act of descending."
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          "ref": "1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, VI.3:",
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        "The descent below the horizon of a celestial body."
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        "(astronomy, obsolete) The descent below the horizon of a celestial body."
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