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Nascence

//ˈneɪ.səns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Birth. countable, rare, uncountable

    "He had discerned that I was with child. He was a physician first. When he came around offering to see me through my baby's nascence, Mother so thoroughly scolded him for his audacity that he was again left speechless. "I will see to the birth ...""

  2. 2
    the event of being born wordnet
  3. 3
    Coming into being; inception, beginning. countable, uncountable

    "Careful examination of Romaine's prophecy reveals the operative nature of the Kongolese religious habitus in the nascence of Haitian Vodou, a religion that truly began to crystallize during the Revolution."

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of Latin nāscentia + -ence, from nāscentem (“arising young, immature”), present participle of nāscī (“to be born”) (Old Latin gnāscī; see genus). Doublet of nascency.

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