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Definition of Birth pangs
1. Noun. A regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth.
Definition of Birth pangs
1. Noun. (plural of birth pang) ¹
2. Noun. (by extension) The difficulty associated with a new project. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birth Pangs
Literary usage of Birth pangs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Witness of the Epistles: A Study in Modern Criticism by Richard John Knowling (1892)
"... these things are the beginning of the birth-pangs ' : this thought would have
been easily intelligible to the disciples, who were already familiar with ..."
2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1890)
"... the birth- pangs of the aeon." To this interpretation of Daniel's prophecy
our Lord gave His sanction when He said, as is recorded Matthew xxiv. ..."
3. The Life of the Lord Jesus Christ: A Complete Critical Examination of the by Johann Peter Lange (1864)
"In the figure of the labouring woman, we recognise the symbolical meaning of the
pangs of child-birth; we learn the glorious end of all birth-pangs in ..."
4. The Gospel According to St Mark: With Maps, Notes and Introduction by George Frederick Maclear (1893)
"8. the beginnings of sorrows] rather, of birth-pangs. ... 3, "then sudden
destruction cometh upon them, as travail(or birth-pangs) upon a woman with child. ..."
5. Commentary on the Prophets of the Old Testament by Heinrich Ewald, John Frederick Smith (1881)
"... advances the proposition, that past the painful crisis of the exile was as
the times, the dead who cannot rise again, time of birth-pangs (Hos. xiii. ..."
6. A Testimony of Jesus Christ by Anthony/Charles Garland (2007)
"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 6 Showers equates the birth pangs "beginning
of sorrows" of Mtt. 24:4-8 with the first four seals of Revelation 6:1-8 ..."
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