aggeneration
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin aggeneratio (“generating in addition”), from aggenerat- (past participle stem of aggenerare) + io (“-ion”).
Noun[edit]
aggeneration (countable and uncountable, plural aggenerations)
- (rare) The act of producing in addition.
- 1627, Thomas Jackson, Treatise Catholike Faith:
- There haue beene..additions vnto this Church without substraction; continuall adgeneration without corruption.
- (rare) Growth or regeneration from grafting.
- (rare, eugenics) Contribution to a race through reproduction.
- 1912, Henry Havelock Ellis, Task of Social Hygiene:
- 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.
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References[edit]
- “aggeneration”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.