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Definition of Confinements
1. confinement [n] - See also: confinement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confinements
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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