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  • noun Plural form of lying-in.

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Examples

  • What becomes of them? what part dost thou perform, in the latter months of the pregnancy of thy only wife, and during her lyings-in and sexual maladies?

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Lady G., it were not for these frequent lyings-in! —

    Pamela 2006

  • Then, as quick as thought (for dreams, thou knowest confine not themselves to the rules of the drama) ensued recoveries, lyings-in, christenings, the smiling boy, amply, even in her own opinion, rewarding the suffering mother.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • But scandals seldom occur, and the women, I am told, behave with great decency. 34 Abroad, they have the usual Moslem pleasures of marriage, lyings-in, circumcision feasts, holy isitations, and funerals.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • The daily business of this good lady was to scold the maids, collect eggs, feed the turkeys and assist at all lyings-in that happened within the parish.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

  • Various French terms, enceinte and accouchement among them, were imported to conceal the fact that careless wives occasionally became pregnant and had lyings-in.

    Chapter 4. American and English Today. 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words Henry Louis 1921

  • No doubt if she had made a few of the well-known feminine concessions would have looked at least ten years younger than her age, for she had never had a day's illness: eight lyings-in were not, in her case, to be counted as exceptions.

    Black Oxen Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • "Two hundred thousand persons, who, in such an epoch, have understood the wickedness of the struggle for life, the filth of sexual relations, the horror of lyings-in, those are they who save the honour of the country," he thought.

    En Route 1877

  • He spoke of the long moonless night lyings-in - wait, the pestilential fens, the rivers envenomed by leaves of poison-plants, the deep snow-drifts, the scorching suns, the scorpions, and rains of grasshoppers; he also descanted on the peculiarities of the great lions of the Atlas, their way of fighting, their phenomenal vigour; and their ferocity in the mating season.

    Tartarin of Tarascon Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • I told her, as to her child, which she called her burthen, it should be no burthen to me; as to the rest she might do as she pleased; it might however do me this favor, that I should have no more lyings-in at the rate of £136 at a time, as I found she intended it should be now.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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