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birth pang

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birth pang
n.
One of the repetitive pains occurring in childbirth.


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Is it an intimation of cosmic birth pangs of death throes?
Night watch by Bence, Evelyn / U.S. Catholic
Travelers' tales and the ancients were also incorporated, inspiring such hopeful remedies as eating a wolf's liver to relieve birth pangs (it only worked if the wolf survived).
Pauline Baynes Questionable Creatures: A Bestiary by Long, Joanna Rudge / The Horn Book Magazine
Mark's use of the birth pangs is highly apocalyptic and symbolic language, used in similar ways in both New Testament letters and in the Gospels.
Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost (proper 28) November 19, 2006 by Olson, Sara K. / Currents in Theology and Mission
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