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

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cognation

Manloius on "He who runs may read," 374. —— on letters of Horning, 398. —— on America and Tartary, 405. —— on cognation of the Jews and Lacadaemonians, 577.

From Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 2, May-December, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. by Various

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

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

Relation -- N. relation, bearing, reference, connection, concern, cognation; correlation &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark