birthhood
birthhood noun: the state, quality, or condition of being born; nativity.
Noun
birthhood (usually uncountable, plural birthhoods)
- The state, quality, or condition of being born; nativity.
- Conception, gestation and birthhood are the sublimest manifestations of the God-power among men!1880, Obstetric Gazette - Volume 2 - Page 244
- Accept me on your laps And let me close your womb The fortune of your birthhood [...]1996, Jared Angira, Tides of Time
Examples of birthhood in a sentence
- [...] 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; [...]2003, L. S. Myler, Jewels of Masonic Oratory 1930 - Page 322:
- 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.2007, Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Who Is This King of Glory?:
Forms of birthhood
| plural | birthhoods |
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Origin of birthhood
From birth + -hood.
Questions about birthhood
- What does birthhood mean?
- Birthhood means the state, quality, or condition of being born; nativity.
- How do you use birthhood in a sentence?
- [...] 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; [...]
- What part of speech is birthhood?
- Birthhood is a noun.
- What is the plural of birthhood?
- The plural of birthhood is birthhoods.
Words near birthhood in the dictionary
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