upsitting
upsitting noun: the first occasion in which a woman sits up to receive company after giving birth.
Noun
upsitting (countable and uncountable, plural upsittings)
- The first occasion in which a woman sits up to receive company after giving birth.
- In the firſt place, I muſt heartily congratulate thy happy condition, and muſt rejoyce at thy upſitting, whom God hath raiſed from the bed of deſpaire:1647, Thomas Fuller, The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience, page 140
- I am once more, bleſſed be God for all his Mercies to me enabled to dedicate to you the firſt Fruits of my Penmanſhip, on my Upſitting, to thank you, and my noble Lord for all your kind Solicitudes for my Welfare.1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela: or, Virtue rewarded. In a series of letters from a beautiful young damsel to her parents: and afterwards, in her exalted condition, between her, and persons of figure...
Examples of upsitting in a sentence
- And yet she developed a sympathy for the Boer families among which she lived and enjoyed their social rituals, as we see in the Boer upsitting and wedding described in African Farm.1983, South African Library (publisher), Kwartaalblad Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Biblioteek, volumes 38-40, page 56:
- Lying-in, remember, customarily proceeded by stages - the upsitting, going out of the chamber into the rest of the house, and the going abroad to church.1993, Gail Kern Paster, The Body Embarrassed - Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England, page 271:
- A woman's upsitting was a social event and a further step in her recovery.2024, Amy McElroy, Women's Lives in the Tudor Era:
Forms of upsitting
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Questions about upsitting
- What does upsitting mean?
- Upsitting means the first occasion in which a woman sits up to receive company after giving birth.
- How do you use upsitting in a sentence?
- And yet she developed a sympathy for the Boer families among which she lived and enjoyed their social rituals, as we see in the Boer upsitting and wedding described in African Farm.
- What part of speech is upsitting?
- Upsitting is a noun.
- What is the plural of upsitting?
- The plural of upsitting is upsittings.
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