Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Birth.
- noun The ratio of the number of births in a given time, as a year, to the total number of population; birth-rate.
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- noun The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year.
- noun philosophy The human ability to create new ideas, institutions and frameworks out of nothing.
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- noun the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Will a high tuberculosis mortality, then, be conducive to great fertility, or do we have to fear that a decrease of the natality will be the result of energetic measures against tuberculosis?
Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians Halliday G. Sutherland 1921
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A revolution is best described as "natality" or the birth of ideas, a new beginning towards political freedom.
unknown title 2009
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Does the claim that the welfare state reduces natality go beyond casual empiricism?
Have More Children?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Cocooned in the protection of our natality, we are safeguarded for a nanosecond from the intensely complex lives that fan out ahead of us, still untainted by the division and conflict that seems to define the architectural mindscape of our current world.
Heather McCloskey Beck: Dynamic Peace, Quantum Love Heather McCloskey Beck 2011
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As far as we welfare state reducing natality ... how does that work in the 50+ countries where growth rates are declining and there is no welfare state?
Have More Children?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Does the claim that the welfare state reduces natality go beyond casual empiricism?
Have More Children?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Cocooned in the protection of our natality, we are safeguarded for a nanosecond from the intensely complex lives that fan out ahead of us, still untainted by the division and conflict that seems to define the architectural mindscape of our current world.
Heather McCloskey Beck: Dynamic Peace, Quantum Love Heather McCloskey Beck 2011
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Cocooned in the protection of our natality, we are safeguarded for a nanosecond from the intensely complex lives that fan out ahead of us, still untainted by the division and conflict that seems to define the architectural mindscape of our current world.
Heather McCloskey Beck: Dynamic Peace, Quantum Love Heather McCloskey Beck 2011
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Cocooned in the protection of our natality, we are safeguarded for a nanosecond from the intensely complex lives that fan out ahead of us, still untainted by the division and conflict that seems to define the architectural mindscape of our current world.
Heather McCloskey Beck: Dynamic Peace, Quantum Love Heather McCloskey Beck 2011
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In this most recent study, data were analyzed from the National Center for Health Statistics' natality files by a team of researchers led by Dr. Melissa M. Ahern of Washington State University.
Allen Hershkowitz: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: The National Research Council Should Investigate Allen Hershkowitz 2011
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