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inbirth en · NOUN

Etymology

From in- + birth. Compare Old English inberþ, inbyrd (“born within one's estate; native-born”).

Meanings

1. (rare) An inner or inward birth
   • The Church is concerned with the human soul, and its teaching bears upon the creature's bliss or suffering during life on earth and in the state after death. Totally different is the doctrine of eternal Truth — the Inbirth of the Light into the Soul. 1940, A. H. Gebhard-L'Estrange, The Tradition of Silence in Myth and Legend:
   • Man the creator is the inbirth of God the creator; he is immersed in the universal spirit of creation. 1952, Ida C. Knapp, Myself the challenger:
   • Two kinds of birth take place in the soul — one is called an inbirth, the other an outbirth. 1886, Johannes Tauler, The Following of Christ:
   • Until the dark fiery soul consents to die, to the light and glory of this temporal nature, the light and glory of eternal nature cannot arise in it as an essential inbirth, and qualify it with these eternal qualities, which it is vainly seeking for amidst temporal effigies. 1847, James Pierrepont Greaves, The New Nature in the Soul:
   • My dear invisible Church (truly invisible, even to its pastor, as I never set eyes on one of you)-my dear Church, I'll let you into a secret—I am no mystic; I never in my life was in a “high sphere," and never experienced an “inbirth." 1835, The Shepherd, numbers 1-33:

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