virgin birth

  1. Christian Theol. the doctrine that Jesus was born to Mary without violating her virginity and that she was his only human parent
  2. Zool. parthenogenesis

See virgin birth in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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noun
Christianity
The doctrine that Jesus was miraculously begotten by God and born of the Virgin Mary without the agency of a human father.

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