Definition of "cognation" [cog•na•tion]

• A cognate relationship (noun)

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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."
• "I will not be myself nor have cognation of what I truly am, unless I am in the woods."
• "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."