How To Use Cognation In A Sentence
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It would be sounded high that he debased human nature, which has a "cognation," so the reverend and learned Doctor Cudworth calls it, with the divine; that the soul of man, immaterial and immortal by its nature, was made to contemplate higher and nobler objects than this sensible world, and even than itself, since it was made to contemplate God and to be united to Him.
Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope
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Kagulu's range of cognation with the East Ruvu languages runs from 69% to 75%, while it shares a range of 61% – 74% with West Ruvu languages.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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And even an unreal cognation was inferred from real agnation not based on blood: e. g. an adoptive child might claim succession under the edict among cognates if he had omitted to assert his civil law right as an agnate.
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They share a distinctly high 93% cognation rate with each other, and in turn share a cognation range of 73.5% – 89.5% with the rest of the East Ruvu group.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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Doe's range with Central-East Ruvu runs 81% – 83.5%, with a particularly high figure of 89.5% cognation with Kwere.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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The usual pattern in instances like this one is for the percentages of cognation between the geographically most distant members of the chain to be those that most closely reflect the true time depth within the chain.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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-- Co is used before vowels, h silent, and English words generally; con before l, m, r, changes n into these letters: becomes com before b, p, and even cog before n in cognomination, cognation, with cognition and words of the same root.
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Applying these estimates to the shared cognation rates established in table 1, which were used to construct the dendrogram in figure 1, provides a way to estimate the probable approximate timing of proto-Ruvu divergence into its descendant languages.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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First, there is rather clear evidence of a straightforward dialect divergence in the tight range of cognation shared among the Central-East Ruvu subgroup — consisting of three divisions, Kami, the Southeast Ruvu cluster of Kutu and Zalamo, and Kwere — at 84.5% – 88.5%.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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Lugulu and Doe's cognation with each other, however, falls significantly lower, at 73.5%.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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This particular percentage pattern, of two distinct cognation ranges, is typical when a proto-language diverges into a chain of daughter communities.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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Roman law distinguished between agnation (a relation through a male person) and cognation (a relation through either a male or a female person).
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I will not be myself nor have cognation of what I truly am, unless I am in the woods.
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