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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Participation \Par*tic'i*pa"tion\, noun [F. participation, L. participatio.]
1. The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.
These deities are so by participation. --Bp. Stillingfleet.
What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of himself! --Atterbury.
2. Distribution; division into shares. [Obs.] --Raleigh.
3. Community; fellowship; association. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
participation
noun
1: the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities" [syn: {engagement}, {involvement}, {involution}] [ant: {non-engagement}, {non-engagement}, {non-engagement}]
2: the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) [syn: {involvement}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "participation": admissibility, admission, affiliation, assimilation, association, companionship, company, completeness, comprehension, comprehensiveness, comprisal, consociation, cooperation, coverage, eligibility, embodiment, embracement, encompassment, envisagement, exhaustiveness, fellowship, fraternity, fraternization, inclusion, inclusiveness, incorporation, membership, openness, partaking, reception, sharing, society, tolerance, toleration, whole
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