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erection

noun
/ɪˈɹɛkʃən/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ērectiō, ērectiōnis, noun of action from perfect passive participle ērectus, from verb erigō, from prefix ē- (“out of”) + regō, + action suffix -iō.

  1. borrowed from ērectiō

Definitions

  1. The act of building or putting up or together of something.

  2. Anything erected or built.

    • The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection.
    • If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low.

  3. Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a…

    Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.

    • There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen.
    • If the erection of a society is made with pontifical authority, then the society is one of pontifical legal status from its inception.
    • Concerns for its usefulness to the particular church and the institute should be seriously considered by the diocesan bishop and the major superior before the canonical erection of a house takes place.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes…

      The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.

      • There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency, […]
      • A marriage was only consummated via erection, penetration, and insemination intra vas.

    2. The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.

      • […] but our experienc'd matron very soon, by chafing it with her hands, brought it to swell to that size and erection I had before seen it up to.
      • Older men typically require longer periods of time to achieve erection and reach orgasm.
      • A very rare complication is priapism, where the penis maintains its erection for many hours.

    3. A penis or clitoris that is erect.

      • He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection.
      • The surge of hormones during puberty means you might have lots of erections, even when you don't want them—like during school.

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Derived

erectionless, miserection, nonerection, piloerection, ptiloerection, re-erection, semierection

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at erection. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01erection02built03shape04graphical05written06write07send08excitement09excited

A definitional loop anchored at erection. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at erection

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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