outbirth

out- +‎ birth

outbirth (plural outbirths)

1. A result or consequence.
   • 1858, The Divine Word Opened: Sermons, page 218:

     There is no music produced which is not the outbirth of inward feeling.

   • 1874, Woodbury M. Fernald, The True Christian Life: And how to Attain it ; Essays, page 4:

     The universe is an outbirth from God; the natural world is an outbirth from the spiritual world; and there is nothing that exists in the natural world but which has its cause and essence in the world of spirit.

   • 1877, J. D. Hawken, Upa-sastrā: Comments, Linguistic and Doctrinal, on Sacred and Mythic Literature, page 112:

     Again, the head or brain is a cause, to which the breast and shoulders stand as means, and the arms form the effect or outbirth.

   • 2013, John R. Hayes, The Complete Problem Solver:

     That it must be so, will be seen from this: Every physical form that we see in nature is the outbirth of some spiritual and invisible cause; and the peculiarity of its form and quality depends solely upon the peculiarity of its cause.

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