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consociation
[kuhn-soh-see-ey-shuhn, -shee-]
noun
the act of uniting in association.
an association of churches or religious orders.
Ecology., a climax community in which a single species is dominant.
Word History and Origins
Origin of consociation1
Example Sentences
“They make it sound like a rampant and excessive practice,” said Paul Rose, who is president of the Oklahoma Christian Home Educators’ Consociation, about abuse and neglect cases.
Facebook’s a greater enthusiast of total user transparency than Facebook’s users, but Facebook’s premise is that maximum publicity, maximum freedom, and maximum consociation are identical.
Thus the consociation of Mr. Depew and the class of '89 might have seemed simply a flocking of like-feathered birds but for a letter written last week by Mr. Depew to his new brethren on the occasion of their annual dinner in Manhattan.
From time to time there are meetings of the "Consociation," or other ministerial assemblages, in the town, when the parsonage is overflowing, and Rachel, with a simple grace, is compelled to do the honors to a corps of the Congregational brotherhood.
In May of that year, at the suggestion of Connecticut and New Haven, commissioners from these colonies, and from Massachusetts and Plymouth also, met at Boston and drafted a body of articles for a consociation or confederation to be known as the United Colonies of New England, a form of union which found a precedent in the federation of the Netherlands and corresponded in the political field to the consociation of churches in the ecclesiastical.
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