parturition

Etymology

From Latin parturitio (“parturition”), from parturire, from parere (“to give birth”).

noun

  1. The act of giving birth; childbirth.
    So strange is the scripture of the sky! Innumerable legends and customs connect the rebirth of the Sun with a Virgin parturition. 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 33

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