borningn.
/ˈbɔːnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbɔrnɪŋ/ Originally regional. Now archaic.
The process of being born; a person's or animal's birth.Quot. 1997 is from a historical novel set in the 18th cent.
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1848 Pennsylvania Freeman (Philadelphia) 3 Aug. The doctor went up to the bed-side of his patient, and I seated myself upon one of the stools..while he was finding out whether ‘the borning’ (for such it was) had been conducted properly.
1885 Notes & Queries 17 Jan. 46/2 We've no deaths to speak on, but we've a deal o' bornings.
1960 S. Plath Colossus 9 The small birds converge, converge With their gifts to a difficult borning.
1997 M. Lawrence Blood Red Roses v. 35 Men always got liverish and histrionical at bornings.
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General use as a modifier, as in borning day, borning room, etc.
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1920 O. Whiteley Story of Opal xxiii. 184 This is the borning day of Saint Louis in 1215.
1957 E. Dahlberg Sorrows of Priapus (1989) i. 13 The solens perish after they have been taken away from their borning place.
1983 Christian Sci. Monitor 29 Mar. 20 We soon discovered that rehabilitating wildlife..was a highly expensive hobby. As the ‘borning season’ influx rose.., we suffered a shortage of shelter space.
1994 Colonial Homes Dec. 82/1 Another luxurious feature was an additional wing that comprised a borning room and a dining room.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
borningadj.
/ˈbɔːnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbɔrnɪŋ/ U.S. Somewhat rare.
That is being born; emerging (literal and figurative).
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1967 W. Styron Confessions Nat Turner iii. 340 While yanking a borning calf from its mother's womb Moore suffered a bizarre and fatal accident.
1980 Christian Sci. Monitor 11 Feb. b11 ‘Astronomy of the Ancients’ is a collection of eight articles from the borning interdisciplinary field known as archaeoastronomy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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