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Agnation

noun

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

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

  2. 2
    line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family wordnet
  3. 3
    The property of being agnate. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin agnatio. Compare French agnation.

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