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  • noun Plural form of maternity.

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Examples

  • Biometric analysis of the multiple maternities in Finland, 1881-1990, and in Sweden since 1751.

    The costs and burdens of governed identity 2009

  • Through all this Elizabeth Woodville gropes her way dauntlessly and regally, from Edward's wooing and those hazes of pleasure to maternities and crises, including moments when she fears for her life after Edward dies (of natural causes).

    Houses Divided Geoffrey Moorhouse 2009

  • The maternal mortality ratio in a country such as the UK is 10 per 100 000 maternities while in poor countries it is as 650 per 100 000.

    African National Congress Parliamentary Caucus 2008

  • There are two incomplete maternities or two types of interruptions of maternity: the one is the old and well known interruption that takes place in a miscarriage or an abortion.

    Zenit: Father Cantalamessa's 3rd Advent Meditation papabear 2008

  • I've always wanted a large family, but after I gave birth to my first child I was so horrified and depressed by my public hospital experience (even private maternities are not yet legal here) that the thought of ever giving birth again horrified me.

    Born at Home 2006

  • There are two incomplete maternities or two types of interruptions of maternity: the one is the old and well known interruption that takes place in a miscarriage or an abortion.

    Archive 2008-12-14 papabear 2008

  • Some of the proposed facilities expected within the newly constructed maternities and paediatric wards include all encompassing antenatal care, labour and delivery care, treatment of babies, post-natal care, immunisation for children, nutrition clinic for malnourished children, health education for mothers, emergency obstetric care, emergency neonatal and general pediatric care HIV prevention and treatment for children and pregnant women and family planning.

    How to Prevent the Death Of Expectant Mothers 2008

  • I guess until God wills that private maternities appear in Romania, I will stick to my doctor, who is very competent and whom we trust a lot.

    Born at Home 2006

  • Then was it that the pope did represent to their maternities how hard a matter and difficult it was for them to keep secrets revealed to them in confession unmanifested to the ears of others, seeing for the space of four-and-twenty hours they were not able to lay up in secret a box which he had highly recommended to their discretion, charge, and custody.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Then was it that the pope did represent to their maternities how hard a matter and difficult it was for them to keep secrets revealed to them in confession unmanifested to the ears of others, seeing for the space of four-and-twenty hours they were not able to lay up in secret a box which he had highly recommended to their discretion, charge, and custody.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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