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English
Etymology
From Middle English childberyng, childbering, chyldberynge, child berynge, equivalent to child + bearing.
Noun
childbearing (usually uncountable, plural childbearings)
- The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition
- 1865, Great Britain. General Register Office, Annual Report ... of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England and Wales ... (volumes 26–30, page 243)
- From the Swedish returns (1776-1855) it appears that 100 childbearings produced 101.62 children, viz., 2.82 stillborn, 98.80 quickborn; consequently 100 quickborn children imply 101.21 childbearings.
Translations
the process of giving birth
Adjective
childbearing (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to, or suitable for childbirth
- 1836 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - England and the English
- Women in the latter stages of childbearing should not be permitted to attend the toll of the manufactories.
- 2000 Methodology for deriving ambient water quality criteria for the protection of human health
- In these cases, fish intake rates specific to females of childbearing age are most appropriate when assessing exposures to developmental toxicants.
- 2004 Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Stephanie Marston - Chicken Soup to Inspire a Woman's Soul: Stories Celebrating the Wisdom, Fun and Freedom of Midlife (page 256)
- Hips that in the old country would be considered good childbearing hips, but in this country are too wide.
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