Parturiency

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

Parturition.

Definitions by Sense

1. Parturition
2. (rare) Gestation.
3. (figurative) A process or quality that brings forth something new.
4. (humanistic psychology) A phase in the therapeutic process in which feelings dominate over understanding, in which the client seems to relive emotions and to lack clarity.

Example Sentences

Is it possible for a woman to go through parturiency without pain?

Savages of a low degree of civilization are generally little troubled by parturiency.

We have seen how the pithy headline 'Infanticide' was a powerful trope for the infanticidal woman's actions and represented the young woman who killed her newborn baby as both the personification of maternal deviancy and as a woman rendered mad by parturiency.

It seems, if we may so use the metaphor, to have been the "destroying angel" of naturalized and injurious systematism, and has greatly assisted to substitue the innovation of the more truly elevating attainments of practical and useful pursuits; not merely intended to produce a book on a Greek word, but the discovery of a useful acid, an alert remedy , or hidden principle of the universe –combining the useful with the ornamental, the parturiency of the fruit with the flower.

In Night Song, Cara Henson, the teacher, becomes pregnant in her romantic relationship with Chase Jefferson, a cavalier soldier, but refuses to tell him about her parturiency.

Ọza people believe that such ritual performances have potency on women's fertility, protect the parturiency and secure a safe delivery.

It is estimated that 0.75% to 2% of pregnant women in developed countries undergo nonobstetric surgery during the course of parturiency; approximately 42% undergo surgery in the first trimester, 35% in the second, and 23% in the third trimester.

The Woman, i.e. Church in her travelling State, may be considered, First, with respect to her Spiritual Parturiency, which great thing being effected powerfully and suddenly, by the abundant Grace of God poured forth upon her in Prayers and Supplications, it thence becomes an easy Birth, the Kindliness and Facility whereof thus expressed, Isa. lxvi. 7. Before she travailed she brought forth: before he pain came she was delived of a Man-child.

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