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nascency

Pronunciation:  'nasunsee

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 Definition: [n]  the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child"
 
 Synonyms: birth, nascence, nativity
 
 Antonyms: death, decease
 
 See Also: alteration, change, delivery, live birth, modification, posthumous birth, rebirth, reincarnation

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Nas"cen*cy\, n. [L. nascentia. See {Nascent}.]
State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.

 
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 Related Terms: accouchement, babyhood, beginnings, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, childhood, confinement, cradle, delivery, freshman year, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, labor, multiparity, nascence, nativity, origin, origination, parturition, pregnancy, the Nativity, the stork, travail, youth
 

 

 

 

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