Definition for NA-TIV'I-TY

NA-TIV'I-TY, n.

  1. Birth; the coming into life or the world. The feast of Christmas is observed in memory of Christ's nativity,
  2. Time, place and manner of birth; as, to calculate one's nativity.
  3. State or place of being produced. These, in their dark nativity, the deep / Shall yield us pregnant with infernal flame. Milton.

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