Sentence:  In <WSD>consideration</WSD> of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with (of) being the main corresponding adposition).