naissance

[ ney-suhns ]

/ ˈneɪ səns /

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a birth, an origination, or a growth, as that of a person, an organization, an idea, or a movement.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

1480–90; <French, Middle French, equivalent to nais- (stem of naître to be born <Vulgar Latin *nāscere, for Latin nāscī) + -ance-ance

L'entreprise de la Sainct Barthlemy, qui n'estoit pas seulement pourpense, et dont la naissance vint de l'imprudence huguenotte.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots|Henry Baird
Biographie documente du Hros depuis sa Naissance jusqu sa deuxime Mort.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1900|Various
Si cieu che vous m'avez dict sur vostre Naissance è vray, vos esteo digne di monter dedans le carozze du Roy.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3|George Augustus Sala
On either side are verses entitled Chanson sur la Naissance du Dauphin.
History of the Fan|George Woolliscroft Rhead

La naissance n'est rien o la vertu n'est pas—Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources|James Wood