A link or relationship between people, things, or ideas; the act of connecting or the state of being connected.
From Latin 'connexio,' derived from 'conectere' (to bind together). This spelling with 'x' before 'ion' was standard in British English before the 19th-century American spelling reform to 'connection.'
John Wesley's Methodist movement called itself a 'connexion' (not 'connection'), and the Methodist Church in Britain still uses this spelling officially—it's been their brand name for over 250 years! The x-spelling became a marker of religious and British institutional identity.
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