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agnation

noun

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin agnatio. Compare French agnation.

  1. learned borrowing from agnatio

Definitions

  1. consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation

    • Between an uncle and his sister's son, therefore, there is no agnation, but only kinship

  2. The property of being agnate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for agnation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA