cognation

Definitions

Examples

• Dr. John Pye Smith says that 'the confusion of language was probably only to a certain point, not destroying cognation.'

• Again, deportation to an island, which entails minor or intermediate loss of status, destroys rights by cognation.

• Neither coincidences nor borrowed material, however, can be properly regarded as evidence of cognation.

• Perhaps the latter infers how close the cognation of the creative and the critical faculty.

• Sir H. Maine says that the prtors early laid hold on cognation as the natural form of kinship.