cognation

[ kog-ney-shuhn ]

/ kɒgˈneɪ ʃən /

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noun

cognate relationship.

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Origin of cognation

1350–1400; Middle English cognacioun (<Anglo-French, Old French ) <Latin cognātiōn- (stem of cognātiō) kinship, equivalent to cognāt(us) cognate + -iōn--ion

Words nearby cognation

cogitative, cogito, ergo sum, cognac, cognate, cognate object, cognation, cognisant, cognition, cognitive, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, cognitive computing

How to use cognation in a sentence

Dr. John Pye Smith says that 'the confusion of language was probably only to a certain point, not destroying cognation.'
The Bible: what it is|Charles Bradlaugh
Again, deportation to an island, which entails minor or intermediate loss of status, destroys rights by cognation.
The Institutes of Justinian|Caesar Flavius Justinian
Neither coincidences nor borrowed material, however, can be properly regarded as evidence of cognation.
Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico|John Wesley Powell
Perhaps the latter infers how close the cognation of the creative and the critical faculty.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845|Various

Sir H. Maine says that the prtors early laid hold on cognation as the natural form of kinship.
Tradition|John Francis Arundell