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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French enfantement.
Noun
enfantement (plural enfantements)
- (obsolete) The act of giving birth.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 112
- "Which? She's expecting a second enfantement, you know, immediately...Oh, she's such a quick puss."
Translations
obsolete: act of giving birth
French
Etymology
From enfanter (“to give birth”) + -ment.
Pronunciation
Noun
enfantement m (plural enfantements)
- childbirth
Further reading
Middle French
Etymology
enfanter + -ment.
Noun
enfantement m (plural enfantemens)
- childbirth
Old French
Etymology
enfanter + -ment.
Noun
enfantement oblique singular, m (oblique plural enfantemenz or enfantementz, nominative singular enfantemenz or enfantementz, nominative plural enfantement)
- childbirth
1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 172 of this essay:Mais se c’est apres l’enfantement ce peut estre pour ce que l’air en mauvais et corumpu et pestilencieux- But if it's after child birth it could be because the air is bad, corrupted and pestilent