Connascence

Quick meaning: Connascence is a noun meaning The state of being born into the same family, race, or group; a commonality of heritage or birthright.

Meaning

The state of being born into the same family, race, or group; a commonality of heritage or birthright.

More Meanings

1. (software engineering) A relationship between two or more elements of software in which changing one necessitates changing the others in order to maintain overall correctness; a metric for such a relationship.
2. (obsolete) The birth of two or more things at the same time; A simultaneous coming into being.
3. (obsolete) The act of growing or developing together.

Example Sentences

[…] and as a connascence of date it may be mentioned that he laid Kirby's foundation-stone in 1570.

Both sprung from Fraud— of common parentage. Yes, they are kin, and may connascence boast,— The Masons gaining what the Jesuits lost.

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.

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.

Word Forms

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