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birthhood - What does it mean?

Definition of 'birthhood'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The state, quality, or condition of being born; nativity.
  • *1880 , Obstetric Gazette - Volume 2 - Page 244:
  • Conception, gestation and birthhood are the sublimest manifestations of the God-power among men!
  • *1996 , Jared Angira, Tides of Time :
  • Accept me on your laps And let me close your womb The fortune of your birthhood [...]
  • *2003 , L. S. Myler, Jewels of Masonic Oratory 1930 - Page 322 :
  • [...] its lights still burning with undiminished splendor; its altars still blazing with their sacred fires; its truth still pure as in the day of its birthhood ; [...]
  • *2004 , Ira H Carmen, Politics In The Laboratory :
  • I am too much the geneticist to believe that the carrier's interest in the baby "outbonds" the interest of the married couple who donated their gametes in a preembryonic "bond," watched the entity they created achieve birthhood , and then stood by and saw their procreative dreams dashed by a cheating contract-breaker.
  • *2007 , Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Who Is This King of Glory? :
  • Also Alexander, as well as several Hindu Sages, as Salivahana and Gautama, bore the mantle of divine birthhood , being said to have been produced by a serpent entwining around their mothers.

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