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parturiency|pɑːˈtjʊərɪənsɪ| [f. as prec. + -ency.] Parturient condition or quality. (Usually fig. in reference to ideas, etc.)
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 210 From whose brains have already issued offsprings every whit as considerable, with parturiencie for greater births. 1686H. More Real Pres. vii. 49, I believe in the Authors thereof there was a kind of Parturiency, and more confused Divination of that Truth. 1736Berkeley Querist App. ii. §253 A more general parturiency with respect to politicks and public counsels. |