agnation

English

Etymology

Latin agnatio: compare French agnation.

Noun

agnation (countable and uncountable, plural agnations)

  1. consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation
    • 1986, John L. Comaroff, ‎Simon Roberts, Rules and Processes, →ISBN, page 226:
      Furthermore, for reasons that will by now be obvious, interhouse relations represent a paradigm for the politics of agnation at large: any competition for influence or position among patrilateral kin is, in essence, a rivalry between houses produced by a shared ancestor and reproduced across the generations, and particular units, whether or not they take the initiative in such processes, are ultimately drawn into their purview (see chap. 2).
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Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for agnation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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