cognation

American  

[kog-ney-shuhn] / kɒgˈneɪ ʃən /

noun

1. cognate relationship.

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Etymology

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

Example Sentences

Neither coincidences nor borrowed material, however, can be properly regarded as evidence of cognation.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley

All of them are not ashamed of kindred and cognation with charity.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Dr. John Pye Smith says that 'the confusion of language was probably only to a certain point, not destroying cognation.'

From The Bible: what it is by Bradlaugh, Charles

The evidence of cognation is derived exclusively from the vocabulary.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley

Again, deportation to an island, which entails minor or intermediate loss of status, destroys rights by cognation.

From The Institutes of Justinian by Moyle, John Baron