Definition of Swaddling

1. Verb. (present participle of swaddle) ¹

2. Noun. The practice of wrapping infants in clothing that restricts movement. ¹

3. Noun. Clothing of this kind. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Swaddling

1. swaddle [v] - See also: swaddle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swaddling

swabbers
swabbie
swabbies
swabbing
swabby
swabs
swack
swacked
swad
swaddies
swaddle
swaddled
swaddler
swaddlers
swaddles
swaddling (current term)
swaddling-clothes
swaddling bands
swaddling clothes
swaddlings
swaddy
swads
swadust mushroom
swag
swagbellied
swagbellies
swagbelly
swage
swage block
swaged

Literary usage of Swaddling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the by Jonathan Eastwood, William Aldis Wright (1884)
"The bandages used in swaddling infants, called also 'swaddling-bands' (Job xxxviii. 9), and ' swaddling-clouts,' as in Shakespeare (Ham. ..."

2. American Medical Journal (1875)
"Art. XXVII—The swaddling-Band.—By HL TRUE, MD " In the day thou wast born thy ... If you tell one of them the swaddling-band is an " infernal machine," she ..."

3. The Simplicity that is in Christ: Sermons to the Woodland Church, Philadelphia by Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1886)
"THE SIGN OF THE swaddling-CLOTHES. A CHRISTMAS SERMON. ... occur to any of the translators that this word swaddling-clothes would ever be an obsolete word, ..."

4. Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon Or Columbia River: Being a by Alexander Ross (1849)
"... between Indians and whites—Manner of swaddling infants—Hardships during infancy—Savage customs—Indian constitution—Chief cause of scanty population—A ..."

5. Louis the Fourteenth, and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century by Pardoe (Julia) (1847)
"The swaddling-clothes—Poverty of Louis XIII.—Social Position of the Kingdom—Partial Reconciliation of the King and Queen—M. de Cinq-Mars—Birth of the Duke ..."

6. A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands by Hugh Fraser (1910)
"... Caterina di Siena — Gregory XVI and the Ballet Dancers — swaddling the Statues in St. Peter's — Secret Societies — Mazzini — The Origin of the Carbonari ..."

7. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"... alone show how hard it was even for the vigorous manhood of the seventeenth century to get rid of the swaddling bands of superstition and imposture. ..."

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