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nativity (iou)



nativity noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French nativite from late Latin nativitas, from Latin nativus: see NATIVE adjective, -ITY.]
(One's) birth; spec. the birth of Jesus (the earliest use), of the Virgin Mary, or of St John the Baptist; any of the church festivals commemorating these births, esp. that of Jesus, observed on 25 December. Also, a picture representing the nativity of Jesus. ME.
C. Vernon Those to bee paid at the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God. Rufus Anderson His Irish nativity, and consequent right to..British protection.
b. The time of one's birth considered astrologically; a horoscope at birth. LME.
Sir W. Scott I will calculate his nativity according to the rule of the Triplicities. S. Plath The astrologer..Selling the Welsh and English mothers Nativities.
Native status of a plant etc.; indigenousness. M19.
Comb.: nativity play a play representing events surrounding the birth of Jesus.