womb

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"Lo, children and the fruit of the womb are an heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord."

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  1. noun See uterus.
  2. noun A place where something is generated.
  3. noun An encompassing, protective hollow or space.
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  • “If a womb was all I wanted, I could take my pick from any number of women willing to lend me theirs—without my having to offer to marry them first,” he informed her coldly. —  TheFrenchCount’sPregnantBride
  • Additional studies in laboratory animals have demonstrated that BPA exposures in the womb are associated with abnormalities in adult female reproductive tissues and exposures shortly after birth have been associated with changes in the secretion of sex hormones from the mammary (breast) cancer. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Perhaps she is simply insane, but that is less likely than the possibility that she is just another self-absorbed woman who thinks that her womb is an untouchable sanctuary free from the regulations of society, the state and God. —  Code Monkey Ramblings
  • A baby in the womb is a human person and is therefore entitled to the same rights as all others. —  Glory to God for All Things
  • So we can say that a human child in the womb is alive (and thus has a soul) when it has blood in its veins. —  Planet RMFO Blog
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  1. Middle English, from Old English wamb.

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  1. English dial, and Scots wame; from Middle English wambe, wombe, from Anglo-Saxon wamb, womb, the belly. = Old Saxon wamba = OFries. wamme = D. warn, belly of a fish, = Old High German wamba, wampa (womba, wumba), Middle High German wambe, wamne, later wamme, German wamme, wampe, belly, lap, = Icelandic vömb, belly, especially of a beast, = Swedish våm = Danish vom = Gothic (Moesogothic) wamba, belly.
  2. from womb, n.
 

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