cobirthing

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noun

The act of birthing together; simultaneous bringing into being.

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Meanings

nouncobirthing (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe act of birthing together; simultaneous bringing into being.

    The interaction of the body-subject and the world, he also said, is a cobirthing of each.

    1994, Delwin Brown, Boundaries of our habitations: tradition and theological construction, page 98
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    Eckhart never tires of emphasizing this cobirthing of the Son by the Father and the soul in the ground of God and the soul, and the oneness of the two births.

    2007, Hee-Sung Keel, Meister Eckhart: an Asian perspective

    […] the meaning of the crossing of trauma in Beauty can be transmitted and clarified only in the desire for a further cobirthing, for a copoietic coming-into-being in a borderline intermediate passage-space within the transference […]

    2007, Hein Viljoen, C. N. Van der Merwe, Beyond the threshold: explorations of liminality in literature, page 129

Origin

From co- + birthing.

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