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surrogation

surrogation noun: the act or result of surrogating; replacement, substitution.

Noun

surrogation (countable and uncountable, plural surrogations)

  1. The act or result of surrogating; replacement, substitution.
    • [T]he Queene [Isabella of France], vvhen ſhee vvas […] aduertiſed of her huſbands dethronization, ſhee outvvardly expreſſed ſo great extremity of paſſion (notvvithſtanding that at the ſame time ſhee vvas tolde of her ſonnes [Edward III of England's] ſurrogation) as if ſhee had beene diſtraught in...1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Second, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John...
    1. (organizational psychology) A process by which a proxy measure for a phenomenon is mistaken for the phenomenon itself.
    2. A process by which a person can predict their emotional and cognitive reactions to a phenomenon by observing the reactions of others who have already experienced that phenomenon.

Forms of surrogation

pluralsurrogations

Questions about surrogation

What does surrogation mean?
Surrogation means the act or result of surrogating; replacement, substitution.
What part of speech is surrogation?
Surrogation is a noun.
What is the plural of surrogation?
The plural of surrogation is surrogations.

Words near surrogation in the dictionary

  1. surrogately
  2. surrogates
  3. surrogateship
  4. surrogateships
  5. surrogating
  6. surrogation
  7. surrogations
  8. surrogative
  9. surrogatively
  10. surrogatum
  11. surros

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