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agnation

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Learned borrowing from Latin agnatio. Compare French agnation.

noun agnations

  1. countable, uncountable consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation Between an uncle and his sister's son, therefore, there is no agnation, but only kinship
  2. countable, uncountable The property of being agnate.

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noun consanguinity by a line of males

Españolagnación
Portuguêsagnação
Françaisagnation
Românăagnațiune

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@misc{agnation_2026,
  title = {agnation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/agnation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}