aggeneration

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Etymology

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From Medieval Latin aggeneratio (generating in addition), from aggenerat- (past participle stem of aggenerare) + io (-ion).

Noun

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aggeneration (countable and uncountable, plural aggenerations)

  1. (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.
    1. (rare) Growth or regeneration from grafting.
    2. (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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