copulation

Definition

The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.

Etymology

From Middle French copulation, from Latin copulo (“I join, unite, connect”).

Example Sentences

• "I quite correctly defined logical copulation by means [of] the copula of inclusion."
• "Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines."
• "In the dusky streets around me ruled an innocent and open copulation. The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens."

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