Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of uniting or the state of being united; union: as, “real union or adunation,” Boyle, Scept. Chym. (1680), p. 94.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A uniting; union.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
uniting ;union .
Etymologies
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Latin adunatio; ad + unus one.
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Examples
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“I must therefore beg leave,” resumed Solomon, “to decline this adunation.”
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Yea, it is most affecting to see the struggles of so great a mind to preserve its inborn fealty to the reason under the servitude to an accepted article of belief, which was, alas! confounded with the high obligations of faith; -- faith the co-adunation of the finite individual will with the universal reason, by the submission of the former to the latter.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
whichbe commented on the word adunation
A uniting; a union. (from WordCraft)
May 20, 2008