coadunation

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/kəʊˌædjʊˈneɪʃən/

noun

Union into a single body or mass; unity.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nouncoadunation (countable and uncountable, plural coadunations)

plural coadunations

  1. countableuncountableUnion into a single body or mass; unity.

    Peace and the coadunation of all the civilized provinces of the earth were the grand and plausible pretexts of Roman despotism […]

    1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend
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    […] for he that erects another economy than what the Master of the family hath ordained, destroys all those relations of mutual dependence which Christ hath made for the coadunation of all the parts of it, and so destroys it […]

    1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old

    When role coadunation is successful, it enables people to live virtuous lives of appropriate narrative disunity and to honor their identity-conferring commitments.

    2023, Rita Mota and Alan D. Morrison, Moral Disjunction and Role Coadunation in Business and the Professions

Origin

  1. Latincoadūnātiō
  2. Englishcoadunation

Latin coadūnātiō, from coadūnō.

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APA

coadunation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coadunation

MLA

“coadunation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coadunation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coadunation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coadunation.

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