nativity

noun8

1. •
   The birth of Jesus.

   • Now we nowhere find warrant in Scripture for setting apart the day of Christ’s Nativity from common use to religious holy use. — 1669
2. •
   (old-fashioned) Someone's birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth.

   • I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. — 1594
3. •
   (figurative) Origin; founding.

   • […] ’tis justly to be apprehended, that persecutions will put a speedy period to the Protestant religion in the place of its nativity. — 1754
4. •
   The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas Day; the festival celebrating the birth of the Virgin Mary or the birth of Saint John the Baptist.

   • Occasionally, too, he ventured to bring her some ghostly present—such as a picture of the Madonna and child, or one of those little naked images which are hawked about the streets at the nativity. — 1835
5. •
   A set of figurines used to create a nativity scene.
6. •
   Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.

   • […] ‘my good old tutor […] instilled into me enough of knowledge for erecting a scheme of nativity, and therefore will I presently go about it.’ — 1815
7. •
   Place of origin; place to which a species is native.

   • The specimens of crystals and other hard stones, which were worked both in India and China, the style determining their nativity, are equally choice. — 1900
8. •
   The quality of being native or innate.

   • Much difference of opinion has prevailed with reference to the genuine nativity of this species [Vinca minor] in Britain. — 1849