Meaning of birthhood | Babel Free

Definitions

The state, quality, or condition of being born; nativity.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“Conception, gestation and birthhood are the sublimest manifestations of the God-power among men!”

“Accept⟳ me on your laps And let⟳ me close⟳ your womb The fortune of your birthhood [...]”

“[...] 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; [...]”

“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.”

“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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