aggeneration

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noun

The act of producing in addition.

OriginMedieval Latin aggeneratio →
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Meanings

nounaggeneration (countable and uncountable, plural aggenerations)

plural aggenerations · alternative adgeneration

  1. countablerareuncountableThe act of producing in addition.

    There haue beene..additions vnto this Church without substraction; continuall adgeneration without corruption.

    1627, Thomas Jackson, Treatise Catholike Faith
    1. countablerareuncountableGrowth or regeneration from grafting.
    2. countablerareuncountableeugenicsContribution to a race through reproduction.

      The higher task is now ours of the regeneration of the race, or, if we wish to express that betterment less questionably, the aggeneration of the race.

      1912, Henry Havelock Ellis, Task of Social Hygiene

Origin

  1. Medieval Latinaggeneratio“generating in addition”
  2. Englishaggeneration

From Medieval Latin aggeneratio (“generating in addition”), from aggenerat- (past participle stem of aggenerare) + io (“-ion”).

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Chicago

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