aggeneration

English

Alternative forms

• adgeneration

Etymology

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

Noun

aggeneration (countable and uncountable, plural aggenerations)

1. (rare) 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. (rare) Growth or regeneration from grafting.
   2. (rare, 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.

Derived terms

• aggenerate

References

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