connexion
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kəˈnɛkʃən/
connexion
- (chiefly, UK) Dated spelling of connection#English|connection.
- 1848, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography:
- I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons; because her rank and connexions suited him; […]
- 1926, H. P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”:
- Persuading the widow that my connexion with her husband's 'technical matters' was sufficient to entitle me to his manuscript, I bore the document away and […]
- 1978, M. I. Finley, “The fifth-century Athenian empire: A balance sheet”, in Peter D. A. Garnsey and C. R. Whittaker (editors), Imperialism in the Ancient World: The Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History, Cambridge University Press (reprinted 2006), ISBN 0-521-03390-X, page 125 ↗,
- In this connexion, it is worth remembering that we are never told how the tribute was collected within the tributary state.
- 1984 November 20, “Rugby Union: The Jaguars Make A Move To End Their Isolation Argentina turns to FIRA and the French connexion is set to benefit”, in The Times, page 21.
- 1848, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography:
- (religion) (a) The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences (US spelling: connection). (b) (Historical) The inter-relationship of prayer groups or religious societies under the oversight of an itinerant preacher who is assisted by the local preachers attached to each society.
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