confinement

Etymology

From French confinement; synchronically analyzable as confine + -ment.

noun

  1. The act of confining or the state of being confined.
  2. (dated) Lying-in, time of giving birth.
    In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary. 1887, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 31, page 629
    At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement. 1913, D. H. Lawrence, chapter //dummy.host/index.php?title=s%3ASons+and+Lovers%2FChapter+1 1, in Sons and Lovers
  3. lockdown

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