Obs. rare. [f. CONGENERATE a.: see -ACY and cf. degeneracy.] Community or affinity of origin, kind, or nature.

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1664.  H. More, Exp. Ep. 7 Churches, x. 172. Churches … ranged neither according to merit nor congeneracy of their Conditions.

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1681.  Glanvill, Sadducismus, II. (1726), 374. There being that congeneracy betwixt … ’s Story and this, they mutually corroborate one another.

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