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cognation

[ kog-ney-shuhn ]

noun

  1. cognate relationship.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cognation1

1350–1400; Middle English cognacioun (< Anglo-French, Old French ) < Latin cognātiōn- (stem of cognātiō ) kinship, equivalent to cognāt ( us ) cognate + -iōn- -ion

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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.'

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

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

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

Sir H. Maine says that the prtors early laid hold on cognation as the natural form of kinship.

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