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The act of building or putting up or together of something.uncountable
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Anything erected or built.countable
- The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection.
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Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.countableuncountable
- 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.
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The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.uncountable
- There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency, […]
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The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.uncountable
- […] but our experienc'd matron very soon, by chafing it with her hands, brought it to swell to that size and erection I had before seen it up to.
- Older men typically require longer periods of time to achieve erection and reach orgasm.
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A penis or clitoris that is erect.countable
- He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection.
syn. erection · lead in one's pencil · tentigo · tumescence