acclivityn.

1614 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. xiii. 511 These bottomes of the sea haue also their..hillocks, mountaines, valleyes, with the Acclivities and Decliuities of places.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) Acclivity, steepness.

1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 33 The additional Acclivity..would be imperceptible.

1705 T. Greenhill Νεκροκηδεια iii. 313 They enter'd the first Gallery, the Pavement of which was of white and pollish'd Marble, rising with a gentle Acclivity.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 319 The ascent to the upper story is not by steps but a paved acclivity.

1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. viii. 363 The acclivity was studded with the pleasure-houses of the noblest families of Rome.

1882 Cent. Mag. May 21/1 It hung, pleasantly enough, tho' much too bare-looking, on the slope of the acclivity and down close to the Sea.

1902 G. S. Whitmore Last Maori War i. 2 They were mountaineers..who scorned men who felt fatigue in mounting acclivities at an angle of 45 degrees or none.

1969 ‘M. Innes’ Family Affair v. 54 Mr Braunkopf was indistinguishable from one of those almost young gentlemen who alternate minstrelsy for the million with the final summits and acclivities of mystical experience.

1994 E. George Playing for Ashes xiv. 397 The narrow high street twisted up a modest acclivity between a row of ancient thatched bungalows and a line of shops.