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surrogations

surrogations is the plural of surrogation.

Meaning of surrogation

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.

Questions about surrogations

What is surrogations the plural of?
Surrogations is the plural of surrogation.

Words near surrogations in the dictionary

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

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