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View synonyms for birth pangs
birth pangs
plural noun
- pains associated with the process of childbirth.
- Informal. the hardships and difficulties accompanying a major innovation, change, or new venture.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of birth pangs1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
It is decreed of mothers that their birth pangs shall not cease until they die.
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In anguish, fear, and humiliation had his love been born, but the birth-pangs had been as brief as they were intense.
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They are striving earnestly and successfully to adjust conditions created in the birth pangs of a social revolution.
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The birth-pangs of Democracy, wherewith convulsed Europe was groaning in cries that reached Heaven, could not escape me.
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The curtains of the dark are already shaken by the birth-pangs of the morning.
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