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cognation

/kog-ney-shuhn/US // kɒgˈneɪ ʃən //

认知,认识,知识,认知力

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : cognate relationship.

Examples

  • Dr. John Pye Smith says that 'the confusion of language was probably only to a certain point, not destroying cognation.'

  • Again, deportation to an island, which entails minor or intermediate loss of status, destroys rights by cognation.

  • Neither coincidences nor borrowed material, however, can be properly regarded as evidence of cognation.

  • Perhaps the latter infers how close the cognation of the creative and the critical faculty.

  • Sir H. Maine says that the prtors early laid hold on cognation as the natural form of kinship.