erection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: erections
Etymology: 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.
Senses: synonyms: building
construction
glosses: The act of building or putting up or together of something.
examples: text: The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection.
text: If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low.
ref: 1948, George Stephen Baker, Ship Design, Resistance and Screw Propulsion, page 194:
synonyms: building
construction
glosses: Anything erected or built.
examples: text: There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen.
ref: 1842, Patrick Robertson, Stewarton Case: Report of the Pleadings […] , page 43:
text: If the erection of a society is made with pontifical authority, then the society is one of pontifical legal status from its inception.
ref: 1949, Bernard Joseph Ristuccia, Quasi-religious Societies: A Historical Synopsis and a Commentary, page 65:
text: 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.
ref: 2000, Rose M. McDermott, “Canon 610”, in John P. Beal et al., editors, New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law, page 774:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1997, Alan Hyde, Bodies of Law, Princeton University Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 175:
text: 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, […]
ref: 2006, Lori Marso, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women, Routledge (2006), unnumbered pages (quoting Simone Beauvoir)
text: A marriage was only consummated via erection, penetration, and insemination intra vas.
ref: 2007, Edward J. Behrend-Martinez, Unfit for Marriage: Impotent Spouses on Trial in the Basque Region of Spain, 1650-1750, University of Nevada Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 14:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
examples: text: […] 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.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: Older men typically require longer periods of time to achieve erection and reach orgasm.
ref: 2008, Robert Crooks, Karla Baur, Our Sexuality, Thomson Wadsworth, published 2008, →ISBN, page 163:
text: A very rare complication is priapism, where the penis maintains its erection for many hours.
ref: 2011, Alan L. Rubin, Diabetes for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., published 2008, →ISBN, page 104:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
raw_tags: of a penis or clitoris
examples: text: He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection.
text: Nothing is more short-lived than the erection; like the crocus of spring, it is there for a moment, and then it is gone; one moment the penis is small, soft, and insignificant, and then in the next it is hard, rigid, and three and four times its previous size.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 128:
text: The surge of hormones during puberty means you might have lots of erections, even when you don't want them—like during school.
ref: 2002, Marguerite Crump, No B.O.!: The Head-to-Toe Book of Hygiene for Preteens, Free Spirit Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 85:
text: Prem was sure everyone could see his erection through his pants, everyone but Maya, who he had been careful to keep to his side all the time
ref: 2006, Abha Dawesar, That Summer in Paris, Anchor Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 259:
text: He kissed her again, this time with a long, moist kiss that gave him an erection.
ref: 2007, Ken Follett, World Without End, Dutton, published 2007, →ISBN, page 244:
synonyms: word: babymaker
word: boner
word: bone
word: bonk-on
word: bonny
word: chubby
word: erection
word: fatty
word: hard-on
word: lob-on
word: lumber
word: pocket rocket
word: prong
word: rager
word: rod-on
word: schlong
word: shaft
word: stiffy
word: stiffie
word: surgation
word: wood
word: woody
word: throbber
word: zizi
glosses: A penis or clitoris that is erect.
Synonyms: word: erection
word: lead in one's pencil
word: tentigo
word: tumescence
Derived terms: erectionless
miserection
nonerection
piloerection
ptiloerection
re-erection
semierection
Related terms: word: erect
word: erector
word: erect penis
word: erectile dysfunction
word: masturbate
word: penis