coadunation

English

Etymology

Latin coadūnātiō, from coadūnō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəʊˌædjʊˈneɪʃən/

Noun

coadunation (countable and uncountable, plural coadunations)

1. Union into a single body or mass; unity.
   • 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:

     Peace and the coadunation of all the civilized provinces of the earth were the grand and plausible pretexts of Roman despotism […]

   • 1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old:

     […] for he that erects another economy than what the Master of the family hath ordained, destroys all those relations of mutual dependence which Christ hath made for the coadunation of all the parts of it, and so destroys it […]

   • 2023, Rita Mota and Alan D. Morrison, Moral Disjunction and Role Coadunation in Business and the Professions:

     When role coadunation is successful, it enables people to live virtuous lives of appropriate narrative disunity and to honor their identity-conferring commitments.