birthhood

plural birthhoods

1. uncountableusuallyThe state, quality, or condition of being born; nativity.

   Accept me on your laps And let me close your womb The fortune of your birthhood [...]

   1996, Jared Angira, Tides of Time

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   Conception, gestation and birthhood are the sublimest manifestations of the God-power among men!

   1880, Obstetric Gazette - Volume 2 - Page 244

   [...] 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; [...]

   2003, L. S. Myler, Jewels of Masonic Oratory 1930 - Page 322

   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.

   2004, Ira H Carmen, Politics In The Laboratory

   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.

   2007, Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Who Is This King of Glory?