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/kəˈnæsəns/ · noun
(obsolete) The birth of two or more things at the same time; A simultaneous coming into being..
In Mrs Craigie I take always an especial interest. She, and dramatist, and I, as dramatic critic, saw the light simultaneously; and our connascence has insired me with a sentimental wish that she should do great things.
[…] and as a connascence of date it may be mentioned that he laid Kirby's foundation-stone in 1570.
It should be observed that the connascence (sahajanma) [Sanskrit सहजन्मा (sahajanmā)] of Father-essence and Mother-essence, the "two forms" of Brahman, though metaphorically spoken of as "birth" (janma), is not a sexual-begetting […]
No: had not Esther been involved in the edict against the Jews, by her connascence and her religious profession, Mordecai might have pleaded in vain for her perilous interference.
Both sprung from Fraud— of common parentage. Yes, they are kin, and may connascence boast,— The Masons gaining what the Jesuits lost.
we, the thousand and one members of the great Smith Family, residing in the "real commercial city of New-York," ramous as we are, have risen as one man, to assert our connascence, to proclaim our unity, and rejoice in the interchange of fraternal sympathies.
By turns, and occasionally as it were by spontaneous connascence, were reflected on her speaking countenance, as on the clear and smooth surface of a bright mirror, the quick intelligence of a clever woman and the touching simplicity of an unsophisticated child, the vigorous energy of a heroine and the fascinating playfulness of a little fairy, the depth of mind that can penetrate and analyse everything and the inquisitiveness of heart to which all sensations are novel and interesting.
Wherefore, some animals continue to retain life after being divided: but, nevertheless, will all of them subsist in capacity when they may be one thing, and that which is continuous by nature, but not by force, or by connascence, that is, growth in conjunction with something else; for a thing of this kind is mutilation.
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Connascence means (obsolete) The birth of two or more things at the same time; A simultaneous coming into being..
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In Mrs Craigie I take always an especial interest. She, and dramatist, and I, as dramatic critic, saw the light simultaneously; and our connascence has insired me with a sentimental wish that she should do great things.
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