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Erection [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of raising and setting perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; a setting upright.

2. The act of raising or building, as an edifice or fortification; as the erection of a wall, or of a house.

3. The state of being raised, built or elevated.

4. Establishment; settlement; formation; as the erection of a commonwealth, or of a new system; the erection of a bishop-rick or an earldom.

5. Elevation; exaltation of sentiments.

6. Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up.

7. Act of rousing; excitement; as the erection of the spirits.

8. Any thing erected; a building of any kind.

9. Distension and extension.

Erection [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.

2. The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes.

3. State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.

4. Anything erected; a building of any kind.

5. The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.