Upsitting

Quick meaning: Upsitting is a noun meaning (obsolete) The first occasion in which a woman sits up to receive company after giving birth.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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:

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• upsittings

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