childing
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of childing
A Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; child, -ing 2
Example Sentences
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But, said he, or it be long too she will bring forth by God His bounty and have joy of her childing for she hath waited marvellous long.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
Travail and pain I sing— The bride on the childing bed, The dark man labouring at his rhymes, The ewe in the lambing shed.
From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh
La Tulita is the prettiest girl in Monterey now that the Señorita Ysabel Herrera lies beneath the rocks, and Benicia Ortega has died of her childing.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Why, I ate fruit a week after childing.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
I have heard of retreating armies stopping and hazarding battle, rather than forsake a childing woman in her extremity, in countries not boasting of so enlightened a government as our own.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon
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