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birth pangs
noun as in labor
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It is decreed of mothers that their birth pangs shall not cease until they die.
In anguish, fear, and humiliation had his love been born, but the birth-pangs had been as brief as they were intense.
They are striving earnestly and successfully to adjust conditions created in the birth pangs of a social revolution.
The birth-pangs of Democracy, wherewith convulsed Europe was groaning in cries that reached Heaven, could not escape me.
The curtains of the dark are already shaken by the birth-pangs of the morning.
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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to birth pangs, such as: birth, childbearing, contractions, delivery, pains, and parturition.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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