Definition of Confinements

1. Noun. (plural of confinement) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Confinements

1. confinement [n] - See also: confinement

Lexicographical Neighbors of Confinements

configurative
configurator
configurators
configure
configured
configures
configuring
confin'd
confinable
confine
confined
confinedness
confineless
confinement
confinement time
confinements (current term)
confiner
confiners
confines
confining
confinity
confirm
confirmability
confirmable
confirmance
confirmand
confirmands
confirmation
confirmation bias
confirmation hearing

Literary usage of Confinements

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Medical Times and Gazette (1879)
"... in her first three confinements, each one being perfectly natural, and only attended with an ordinary amount- « suffering lasting for four or five hours ..."

2. Perfect Womanhood for Maidens by Mary Ries Melendy (1903)
"SECOND AND SUCCEEDING confinements If the breasts are comfortable (which in the second and in succeeding confinements they probably will be), let nothing be ..."

3. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"And their confinements and bounds, prescribed by the ecclesiastical commissioners. What OUCH as bore affection to the old popish religion were now course ..."

4. Pulmonary consumption: Its Nature, Varieties, and Treatment : with an by Charles James Blasius Williams (1872)
"... of Discharges—Unfavorable confinements and over-lactation—Mental Depression—Damp—Buchanan and Bowditch's Researches—Dusty Occupations—Consumption not ..."

5. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of by David Livingstone (1858)
"Knowledge of Surgery at a very low Ebb. — Little Attendance given to Women at their confinements.—The "Child Medicine. ..."

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