Antonyms for nativity
nəˈtɪv ɪ ti, neɪ-na·tiv·i·ty

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1. birth, nativity, nascency, nascencenoun

   the event of being born

   "they celebrated the birth of their first child"

   Synonyms:
   parentage, giving birth, parturition, nascence, birthing, nascency, birth

2. Virgin Birth, Nativitynoun

   the theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father; Christians believe that Jesus's birth fulfilled Old Testament prophecies and was attended by miracles; the Nativity is celebrated at Christmas

   Synonyms:
   parthenogenesis, nascency, parthenogeny, virgin birth, nascence, birth

How to use nativity in a sentence?

1. Clive Staples Lewis:

   Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor' They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now

2. Pam Olsen:

   I'm actually very sad that she felt motivated to do that, i do not like the display. I think it's rude and it's sad that he put it up to protest the nativity that means so much to millions of people, however I don't think anyone should ever vandalize anything. Free speech is free speech whether we like it or not.

3. Michael Mars:

   There's nothing wrong with (having a nativity scene on government property) ... if other religions can be accepted as well, there can't be one dominating voice to all the voices.

4. Michael Nazir-Ali:

   The words the Lord Jesus occur three times in the carol and point to the central message of Christmas which is : God is with us in Jesus. Everything in the Church, where the Nativity play is being held, points to this central truth of the Christian Faith.

5. Madeline Hsu:

   It’s definitely sort of reinvocation of kind of what people in Asian American studies would refer to as ‘Yellow Peril’ fearmongering, there are ways in which it resonates with what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II, where regardless of citizenship, regardless of nativity, they were racially categorized as enemy aliens.

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