coagency

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noun

Agency in common, or a joint or combined agency.

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Meanings

nouncoagency (countable and uncountable, plural coagencies)

plural coagencies

  1. countableuncountableAgency in common, or a joint or combined agency.
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    If indeed by the force of Matthew's example, by persuasion or by additional and more mysterious influences, or by an inward co-agency, compatible with the existence of a personal will, James should be led to repent; if through admiration and love of this great goodness gradually assimilating his mind to the mind of his benefactor, he should in his own person become a grateful and dutiful child — then doubtless the mother would be wholly satisfied!

    1825, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: […], London: […] Thomas Davison, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC

Origin

From co- + agency.

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APA

coagency. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coagency

MLA

“coagency.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coagency. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coagency,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coagency.

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