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nativity

noun
/nəˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/US/neːˈʈɪ.ʋɪ.ʈiː/

Etymology

From Middle English nativite, from Anglo-Norman nativite, Middle French nativite, and their source, Latin nātīvitās (“birth”). By surface analysis, native + -ity. See also naïveté.

  1. derived from nativitas
  2. derived from nativite
  3. derived from nativite
  4. inherited from nativite

Definitions

  1. Someone's birth

    Someone's birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth.

    • I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows.
    • And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

  2. Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology

    Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.

  3. The birth of Jesus.

    • Now we nowhere find warrant in Scripture for setting apart the day of Christ’s Nativity from common use to religious holy use.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas Day

      The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas Day; the festival celebrating the birth of the Virgin Mary or the birth of Saint John the Baptist.

      • Occasionally, too, he ventured to bring her some ghostly present—such as a picture of the Madonna and child, or one of those little naked images which are hawked about the streets at the nativity.

    2. A set of figurines used to create a nativity scene.

    3. Origin

      Origin; founding.

    4. Place of origin

      Place of origin; place to which a species is native.

      • The specimens of crystals and other hard stones, which were worked both in India and China, the style determining their nativity, are equally choice.

    5. The quality of being native or innate.

      • Much difference of opinion has prevailed with reference to the genuine nativity of this species [Vinca minor] in Britain.
      • The most important fact to note in Berkeley’s position is his argument to exclude the nativity of the visual perception of the third dimension.

    6. The birth of Jesus as described in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

    7. Christmas.

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Derived

nativity play, nativity scene

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA