birthpang

birthpang
birth pang n.
1. One of the repetitive pains occurring in childbirth. Often used in the plural.
2. birth pangs Difficulty or turmoil associated with a development or transition:

the birth pangs of an emergent democracy.

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Universalium. 2010.

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