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Meaning of "agnation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AGNATION

agnation  [æɡˈneɪʃ ən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AGNATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Agnation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AGNATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Patrilineality

Patrilineality is a system in which an individual belongs to his or her father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritance of property, names, or titles through the male line. One's patriline is one's father and his father and his father... and so on. Adjective forms are patrilineal, agnatic, and male-line. One's patriline is thus a record of descent from an ancestor to a descendant in which the individuals in all intervening generations are male. In cultural anthropology, a patrilineage is a consanguineal male and female kin group, each of whose members is descended from the common ancestor through male forebears. A person's family name and a man's genetic Y-DNA have descended down this same line from father to son. In a patrilineal descent system, an individual is considered to belong to the same descent group as his or her father from which the members' family name is commonly derived, although matrilineality has also been used as the descent group in some cultures. An agnate is one's genetic relative, male or female, exclusively through male ancestors.

Definition of agnation in the English dictionary

The definition of agnation in the dictionary is descent by male links from a common male ancestor.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AGNATION


coagulation
kəʊˌæɡjʊˈleɪʃ ən
colonization
ˌkɒlənaɪˈzeɪʃ ən
commercialization
kəˌmɜːʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃ ən
congratulation
kənˌɡrætʃʊˈleɪʃ ən
cremation
krɪˈmeɪʃ ən
cybernation
ˌsaɪbəˈneɪʃ ən
decontamination
ˌdiːkənˌtæmɪˈneɪʃ ən
dehydration
ˌdiːhaɪˈdreɪʃ ən
detoxification
diːˌtɒksɪfɪˈkeɪʃ ən
devastation
ˌdɛvəˈsteɪʃ ən
dissemination
dɪˌsɛmɪˈneɪʃ ən
eradication
ɪˌrædɪˈkeɪʃ ən
escalation
ˌɛskəˈleɪʃ ən
evacuation
ɪˌvækjʊˈeɪʃ ən
evaporation
ɪˌvæpəˈreɪʃ ən
exaggeration
ɪɡˌzædʒəˈreɪʃ ən
exploitation
ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃ ən
extermination
ɪkˌstɜːmɪˈneɪʃ ən
fabrication
ˌfæbrɪˈkeɪʃ ən
fascination
ˌfæsɪˈneɪʃ ən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AGNATION

agnail
agname
agnamed
agnate
agnathan
agnathous
agnatic
agnatical
agnatically
Agnes
Agnesi
Agnew
Agni
agnise
agnize
agnoiology
agnomen
agnomina
agnominal

WORDS THAT END LIKE AGNATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of agnation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «agnation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AGNATION

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The translations of agnation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «agnation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

男系亲属
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

agnación
570 millions of speakers

English

agnation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

agnation
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

agnation
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

agnation
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

agnação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সগোত্র ব্যক্তি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

agnation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Agnation
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

agnation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

agnation
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

agnation
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Agnation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bên nội
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

agnation
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अग्निशामक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

akrabalık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

agnation
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

agnation
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

agnation
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

agnation
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αρρενογονία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

agnation
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

agnation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

agnation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of agnation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AGNATION»

The term «agnation» is used very little and occupies the 167.063 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AGNATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «agnation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «agnation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about agnation

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AGNATION»

Discover the use of agnation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to agnation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics ...
III The concept of agnation (tol) centres on all that is binding and absolute. The verb tol means to bind together, or to sew, and Somali ideas of the constraining force of agnation are expressed in numerous sayings such as that 'Agnates are ...
I. M. Lewis, 1999
2
Grammatical Metaphor: Views from Systemic Functional Linguistics
Identifying these units is, I will show, necessarily based on the paradigmatic structures or agnates they relate to: agnation is then used to demarcate the unit boundaries. I will, for instance, use agnation to identify cleaning the kitchen as the ...
A. M. Simon-Vandenbergen, Miriam Taverniers, Louise Ravelli, 2003
3
The patriarchal theory: based on the papers of the late John ...
actually found among other early nations was, in general, not preceded by Agnation — whereas, from the occurrence of Agnation at Rome, we cannot get the inference that Agnation was primeval even among Roman tribes, or get any light as ...
John Ferguson McLennan, Donald McLennan, 1885
4
Studies in Ancient History: Comprising a Reprint of ...
agnation are to be found in the early customs of most of the Indo-European races, we have seen that the indigenous customs of most early communities exhibit peculiarities intelligible only on the supposition that kinship and succession ...
John Ferguson McLennan, 1886
5
Evolution of Law: Primitive and ancient legal institutions
181 ff., 205 ff., 214, 260-62, where Maine's theory of agnation is criticised. '"The last vestiges of the two disappeared from the law together. But, in fact, agnation went first. The paternal powers were susceptible of abridgment and restriction in  ...
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Primitive and Ancient Legal Institutions
3 Such is the view of McLennan, "Patriarchal Theory," 136-40, 181 ft*., 205 ff., 214, 260-62, where Maine's theory of agnation is criticised. 3 " The last vestiges of the two disappeared from the law together. But, in fact, agnation went first.
Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore, 1915
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Studies in ancient history, comprising a repr. of 'Primitive ...
agnation are to be found in the early customs of most of the Indo-European races, we have seen that the indigenous customs of most early communities exhibit peculiarities intelligible only on the supposition that kinship and succession ...
John Ferguson McLennan, 1886
8
The Confucian Transformation of Korea: A Study of Society ...
Agnation. and. Ancestor. Worship. For establishing a Confucian-style society, a first crucial step was the implantation of the agnatic principle in the social matrix and the activation of an agnatic consciousness within a descent group.
Martina Deuchler, 1992
9
A history of matrimonial institutions: chiefly in England ...
Instead of existing "almost everywhere," often preserving as in a mold the imprint of the paternal power which it has outlived and upon which it is thought always to depend, among Aryan peoples agnation is found together with the potestas ...
George Elliott Howard, 1904
10
A Cognitive-Functional Approach to Nominalization in English
Three aspects of agnation seem to me important to the description of nominalization patterns. First, relationships of agnation are always part of elaborate networks which characterize a specific construction. Secondly, agnation can be used as ...
Liesbet Heyvaert, 2003

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