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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Subsidence \Sub*sid"ence\, Subsidency \Sub*sid"en*cy\, n. [L.
subsidens -entis, p. pr of subsidere See {Subside}.]
The act or process of subsiding.
The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions.
--Bp.
Warburton
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
subsidence
n 1: an abatement in the manifestations of a disease; "his cancer
is in remission" [syn: {remission}]
2: a gradual sinking to a lower level [syn: {settling}, {subsiding}]
3: the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it
[syn: {cave in}]
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