parturition
📖 Definitions
noun
The act of giving birth.
💬 Usage Examples
“A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book ‘means’ thereafter, perforce, -- both grammatically and actually, -- whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.” “A Note on Cabellian Harmonics” by James Branch Cabell, in Warren McNeill; Cabellian Harmonics; Random House; 1928.