adjunction
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of adjunction
First recorded in 1595–1605, adjunction is from the Latin word adjunctiōn- (stem of adjunctiō ). See adjunct, -ion
Example Sentences
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This adjunction may be called spiritual dwelling together; which takes place with married partners who love each other tenderly, however distant their bodies may be from each other.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
Sometimes what appears as inflection turns out on examination to be merely adjunction.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton
The latter tried to strengthen itself by the adjunction of delegates from the National Guard.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
It will be at once seen that this arrangement permits of continuing the distribution of electricity to the interior of buildings by the simple adjunction of one or several bobbins.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various
An adjunction of characteristics, her mother predominating morally and physically.
From A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by J. G Patterson
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