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descender
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Word definitions for descender in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Descender \De*scend"er\, n. One who descends.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In typography , a descender is the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font . The line that descenders reach down to is known as the beard line . For example, in the letter y , the descender is the "tail", or that portion of the diagonal ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who descends a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in typography, "part of a letter that extends below the body," 1802, agent noun from descend .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person or thing that descends. 2 (context typography English) The part of a lowercase letter that is drawn below the bottom of lowercase letters, such as the ''tail'' of the letters g, p, and q. 3 (context cycling English) A cyclist who excels at ...
Usage examples of descender.
Descenders and the Ascenders, and, most lamentably, passes over those systemssuch as that of Plotinusthat perfectly integrate the two.
Descenders accuse the Ascenders of being repressive, puritanical, life-denying, sex-denying, earth-destroying, and body-ignoring.
The two could no longer be united, and historically the Ascenders and the Descenders went virtually their separate ways.
The pessimistic Ascenders dourly pursued an otherworldly Goal they were assured of never reaching, and the optimistic Descenders giddily embraced a this-worldly creation whose Source they celebrated but never experienced.
Suddenly, very suddenly, the Ascenders were out, the Descenders were inand the transition was bloody, arguably the bloodiest cognitive transformation in European history.
Although these approaches utterly lack any depth, they make up for that in a type of fearless shallowness, the same fearless shallowness that marks the exuberance of Descenders everywhere, that confers great confidence on their reductive pronouncements and makes happy the hand of Thanatos that they so freely wave.
Descenders accuse the Ascenders of being repressive, puritanical, life-denying, sex-denying, earth-destroying, and body-ignoring.
The two could no longer be united, and historically the Ascenders and the Descenders went virtually their separate ways.
The Descenders are destroying this world, because this world is the only world they have.
What the Descenders lacked was the other half of the equation, the nondual view: both good and evil can be transcended.
The Descenders had fundamentally triumphedin rejecting the bathwater of myth they had tossed out the baby of Ascent: no deeper or higher stages than the rational-ego and its empirical world were acknowledged.
Idealism left the Descenders virtually unchallenged as the molders of modernity.
The collapse of Idealism left the Descenders virtually unchallenged as the holders and molders of modernity.
I believe, that the Descenders became the inheritors of frustrated Ascentthe ever-frustrated desire to move up became the ever-frustrating desire to move forward.
The Descenders accuse the Ascenders of being repressive, puritanical, life-denying, sex-denying, earth-destroying, and body-ignoring.