birthhood

birthhood

English

Etymology

From birth +‎ -hood.

Noun

birthhood (usually uncountable, plural birthhoods)

1. 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.

See also

• bornness