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See also: érection
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ērectiō, ērectiōnis, noun of action from perfect passive participle ērectus, from verb erigō, from prefix ē- (“out of”) regō, action suffix -iō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]erection (countable and uncountable, plural erections)
- (uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something.
- Synonyms: building, construction
- (countable) Anything erected or built.
- Synonyms: building, construction
- The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection.
- 1948, George Stephen Baker, Ship Design, Resistance and Screw Propulsion, page 194:
- If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low.
- (uncountable or countable, ecclesiastical) Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
- 1842, Patrick Robertson, Stewarton Case: Report of the Pleadings […] , page 43:
- There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen.
- 1949, Bernard Joseph Ristuccia, Quasi-religious Societies: A Historical Synopsis and a Commentary, page 65:
- If the erection of a society is made with pontifical authority, then the society is one of pontifical legal status from its inception.
- 2000, Rose M. McDermott, “Canon 610”, in edited by John P. Beal et al., New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law, page 774:
- Concerns for its usefulness to the particular church and the institute should be seriously considered by the diocesan bishop and the major superior before the canonical erection of a house takes place.
- (uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:erection
- 1997, Alan Hyde, Bodies of Law, Princeton University Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 175:
- I think that the case also demonstrates some singular aspects of the penis as a narrator of tales, specifically the way in which the erection of a penis falls outside a man's conscious control and therefore threatens a carefully constructed master legal narrative in which bodily self-control graphically represents the self-government contemplated by a democratic legal society.
- 2006, Lori Marso, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women, Routledge (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered pages (quoting Simone Beauvoir):
- There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency, […]
- (uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
- 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
- […] but our experienc'd matron very soon, by chafing it with her hands, brought it to swell to that size and erection I had before seen it up to.
- (countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:erect penis
- Hyponyms: priapism, permaboner, death erection, morning wood
- He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 128:
- Nothing is more short-lived than the erection; like the crocus of spring, it is there for a moment, and then it is gone; one moment the penis is small, soft, and insignificant, and then in the next it is hard, rigid, and three and four times its previous size.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]act of building
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something erected or built
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physiology: process by which a penis becomes erect
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rigid state of penis or clitoris
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Further reading
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[edit]Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ērectiō, ērectiōnem.
Noun
[edit]erection f (plural erections)
Descendants
[edit]- French: érection
References
[edit]- erection on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
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