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

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

Perhaps the latter infers how close the cognation of the creative and the critical faculty.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

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

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

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

Grammatic similarities are not supposed to furnish evidence of cognation, but to be phenomena, in part relating to stage of culture and in part adventitious.

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