erection
/ɪˈɹɛkʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.52 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection."
- "If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low."
- "There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen."
- "If the erection of a society is made with pontifical authority, then the society is one of pontifical legal status from its inception."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ērectiō
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ɪˈɹɛkʃən/