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Erection
Definitions
- 1 The act of building or putting up or together of something. uncountable
- 2 the act of building or putting up wordnet
- 3 Anything erected or built. countable
"The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection."
- 4 a structure that has been erected wordnet
- 5 Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities. countable, uncountable
"There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen."
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- 6 an erect penis wordnet
- 7 The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood. uncountable
"I think that the case also demonstrates some singular aspects of the penis as a narrator of tales, specifically the way in which the erection of a penis falls outside a man's conscious control and therefore threatens a carefully constructed master legal narrative in which bodily self-control graphically represents the self-government contemplated by a democratic legal society."
- 8 The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood. uncountable
"[…] 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."
- 9 A penis or clitoris that is erect. countable
"He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection."
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.
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