parturiency

Example Sentences

• "Is it possible for a woman to go through parturiency without pain?"
• "Savages of a low degree of civilization are generally little troubled by parturiency."
• "We have seen how the pithy headline 'Infanticide' was a powerful trope for the infanticidal woman's actions and represented the young woman who killed her newborn baby as both the personification of maternal deviancy and as a woman rendered mad by parturiency."
• "It seems, if we may so use the metaphor, to have been the "destroying angel" of naturalized and injurious systematism, and has greatly assisted to substitue the innovation of the more truly elevating attainments of practical and useful pursuits; not merely intended to produce a book on a Greek word, but the discovery of a useful acid, an alert remedy , or hidden principle of the universe –combining the useful with the ornamental, the parturiency of the fruit with the flower."
• "In Night Song, Cara Henson, the teacher, becomes pregnant in her romantic relationship with Chase Jefferson, a cavalier soldier, but refuses to tell him about her parturiency."
• "Ọza people believe that such ritual performances have potency on women's fertility, protect the parturiency and secure a safe delivery."