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kentauros

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3. "Nativity war"?
Thu Dec 11, 2014, 10:01 AM
Dec 2014

Wouldn't that be a civil war?

nativity (n.) c.1200, from Old French nativité "birth" (12c.), from Late Latin nativitatem (nominative nativitas) "birth," from Latin nativus "born, native" (see native (adj.)). Late Old English had nativiteð, from earlier Old French nativited.

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