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Cognation

//kɒɡˈneɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cognate relationship. countable, uncountable

    "[…] these stones, I say, gratifie our sight, as having a nearer cognation with the Soul of Man, that is Rational and Intellectual, and therefore is well pleased when it meets with any outward Object that fits and agrees with those congenite Ideas her own nature is furnished with."

  2. 2
    (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood wordnet
  3. 3
    line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English cognacion, cognacioun, from Latin cognātiō; equivalent to cognate + -ion.

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