outbirth

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noun

A result or consequence.

Scrabble 13

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nounoutbirth (plural outbirths)

plural outbirths

  1. A result or consequence.

    There is no music produced which is not the outbirth of inward feeling.

    1858, The Divine Word Opened: Sermons, page 218
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    The universe is an outbirth from God; the natural world is an outbirth from the spiritual world; and there is nothing that exists in the natural world but which has its cause and essence in the world of spirit.

    1874, Woodbury M. Fernald, The True Christian Life: And how to Attain it ; Essays, page 4

    Again, the head or brain is a cause, to which the breast and shoulders stand as means, and the arms form the effect or outbirth.

    1877, J. D. Hawken, Upa-sastrā: Comments, Linguistic and Doctrinal, on Sacred and Mythic Literature, page 112

    That it must be so, will be seen from this: Every physical form that we see in nature is the outbirth of some spiritual and invisible cause; and the peculiarity of its form and quality depends solely upon the peculiarity of its cause.

    2013, John R. Hayes, The Complete Problem Solver

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