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cognation
[ kog-ney-shuhn ]
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cognation1
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Example Sentences
Dr. John Pye Smith says that 'the confusion of language was probably only to a certain point, not destroying cognation.'
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Again, deportation to an island, which entails minor or intermediate loss of status, destroys rights by cognation.
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Neither coincidences nor borrowed material, however, can be properly regarded as evidence of cognation.
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Perhaps the latter infers how close the cognation of the creative and the critical faculty.
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Sir H. Maine says that the prtors early laid hold on cognation as the natural form of kinship.
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