Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of uniting, or the state of being united; junction; union.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of uniting, or the state of being united; junction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Union ; the act of uniting, or the state of being united.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Which includes something Jake calls "unition" - a term he coined when our 20somethings ministry merged a year ago with the college ministry at our church - and it's just sort of stuck.
Unition - Is It Possible? Happy 2008
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Which includes something Jake calls "unition" - a term he coined when our 20somethings ministry merged a year ago with the college ministry at our church - and it's just sort of stuck.
Archive 2008-01-01 Happy 2008
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It means uniting, really, but I think it sounds cooler - the unition of the church...
Unition - Is It Possible? Happy 2008
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It means uniting, really, but I think it sounds cooler - the unition of the church...
Archive 2008-01-01 Happy 2008
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Majesty doth reap some commodity by the faculty, so that the unition of two in one man doth bring oftentimes more benefit to one of them in
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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These are called births, because conjugial love perfects an angel, uniting him with his consort, in consequence whereof he becomes more and more a man (_homo_) for, as was said above, two married partners in heaven are not two but one angel; wherefore by conjugial unition they fill themselves with the human principle, which consists in desiring to grow wise, and in loving whatever relates to wisdom.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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On a certain time they represented the Lord ascending from the sepulchre, and at the same time the unition of his human with the divine.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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Soon after this defercion, one of Underhill's men fell lame, and the reft of the company be - ing fatigued with travelling, loaded with arms, amm. unition, and provifions, it vvas agreed to attack the nearcft of the enemy's forts.
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With us also it is permitted that a sufficient man may (by dispensation from the prince) hold two livings, not distant either from other above thirty miles; whereby it cometh to pass that, as her Majesty doth reap some commodity by the faculty, so that the unition of two in one man doth bring oftentimes more benefit to one of them in a month (I mean for doctrine) than they have had before peradventure in many years.
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