parturition

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From Latin parturitiō (“parturition”), from parturiō, from pariō (“to give birth”).

In one, the sacred parturition scene, A happy painless mother birth’d a perfect child. — Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
The unerring avenger stands close to you, and the dread hour of parturition's nigh! — Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre, Voltairine De Cleyre
[344] The one exception being where parturition is imminent, and no helpmate is available. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen

birth, giving birth, birthing

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