aggenerationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Medieval Latin aggeneratio (“generating in addition”), from aggenerat- (過去分詞 stem of aggenerare) + io (“-ion”).

名詞

aggeneration (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 aggenerations)

1. (まれに) 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. (まれに) Growth or regeneration from grafting.
   2. (まれに, 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.

派生語

• aggenerate

参照

• “aggeneration”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.