agnation

NOUN
  1. line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family
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How To Use agnation In A Sentence

  • The highest conception we can form of heaven is the reversal of all the evil of earth, and the completion of its incomplete good: the sinless purity -- the blessed presence of God -- the fulfilment of all desires -- the service which is _blessed_, not toil -- the changelessness which is progress, not stagnation. Expositions of Holy Scripture
  • Only protracted stagnation of yields brought them to a grudging retreat from farming by decree, and from Lysenko's “agrobiology,” which cast an aura of science over the Stalinist agricultural policy. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • The apprehensions of the Health Department are valid if we go for indiscriminate digging in places where there are chances for water stagnation.
  • Tilden postulated that improper diet led to stagnation of food in the colon, which then putrefied and formed toxins.
  • According to Samuelson, Japan pioneered the new stagnation and the parallels are disturbing.
  • Grasp the concept of nozzle efficiency, isentropic stagnation and their calculation.
  • More than €1 trillion will be injected into the eurozone to halt an alarming slide into stagnation, it was announced yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • If they come back to us and say there is hardly any money, we would be in stasis (a state of stagnation).
  • It is the price we pay for fifty years of political and intellectual stagnation, a time when the political dynamic of capitalism was detoured and frozen onto a cold war sidetrack.
  • Yet this is far from certain and policymakers need to do more to stave off the threat of deflation, stagnation and financial instability. Times, Sunday Times
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