Meaning of upsitting | Babel Free

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The first occasion in which a woman sits up to receive company after giving birth.

countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“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:”

“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.”

“I have⟳ been present⟳, stretched on the floor in a blanket (asleep, apparently, no doubt⟳), when two upsittings have⟳ been going on, at opposite corners of a large room, all still as the grave but the subdued whisperings of the happy pairs.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A woman's upsitting was a social event and a further step in her recovery. It signalled that she was on her way towards a full recovery, and it was a time when more people could visit⟳, and gifts would be brought for the mother and child by well-wishers.”

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