connexion

• At the same time, rather inconsistently and feeling that he had a completer vision than before of that oddest of animals the artist who happens to have been born a woman, he felt warned against a serious connexion--he made a great point of the "serious"--with so slippery and ticklish a creature. —  The Tragic Muse
• More recently a connexion has been traced between the Bushmen and the Pygmy peoples inhabiting the forests of Central Africa. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• Mus The buccina, in respect of its technical construction and acoustic properties, was the ancestor of both trumpet and trombone; the connexion is further established by the derivation of the words Sackbut and Posaune (the German for trombone) from buccina. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• Had they known the nature of the connexion, they need hardly have grudged Steele his contributor. —  Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series
• The weak and morbidly sensitive nature may be forgiven if its dependence leads to excessive veneration Warburton derived advantages from the connexion, the prospect of which, we may hope, was not the motive of his first advocacy. —  Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series

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