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outbirth|ˈaʊtbɜːθ|
[f. out- 7 + birth n.1]
1. That which is brought forth or produced, or which springs from (something); the outward product or progeny.
1663W. Bayly Visit. fr. on High 27 They are hid perpetually from the out-birth of the wisdom of this World, and revealed onely to the Babes in the inward spiritual ground in Christ Jesus. 1740Law App. to all that Doubt (1768) 21 Heaven itself is nothing but the first glorious Out-birth,..the beatific Visibility, of the One God in Trinity. 1842J. Sterling Ess., etc. Tennyson (1848) I. 458 All the rest is the direct outbirth and reflection of our own age.
2. The action or fact of bringing forth. rare.
1691E. Taylor tr. Behmen's Theos. Philos. vii. 8 The Instrument in the outbirth of this spirit is Venus. |