Erection Meaning
/ɪˈɹɛkʃən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of building or putting up or together of something.
nounAnything erected or built.
Sentence Examples
A morning erection: Will it last only until I take a leak?
Don't lend money to someone who can't have a morning erection.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the monument took several months to complete.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the monument took several years due to its massive scale.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low."
— 1948, George Stephen Baker, Ship Design, Resistance and Screw Propulsion, page 194:
"There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen."
— 1842, Patrick Robertson, Stewarton Case: Report of the Pleadings […] , page 43:
"If the erection of a society is made with pontifical authority, then the society is one of pontifical legal status from its inception."
— 1949, Bernard Joseph Ristuccia, Quasi-religious Societies: A Historical Synopsis and a Commentary, page 65:
"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."
— 2000, Rose M. McDermott, “Canon 610”, in John P. Beal et al., editors, New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law, page 774:
"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."
— 1997, Alan Hyde, Bodies of Law, Princeton University Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 175:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the monument took several months to complete.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the monument took several years due to its massive scale.