Synonyms:
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
Meaning: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
Synonyms:
confinement
Meaning: the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
Usage examples
In due course, the confinement of Lady Aoi approached.
To be kept in strict solitary confinement, and to be closely watched and guarded.
But no more solitary confinement of an evening for Benjamin Flint, as long as you're agreeable."
The worst punishment that human ingenuity has ever been able to invent is extreme monotony--solitary confinement.
An abortion is as important a matter as a confinement and requires as much attention as the birth of a child at its full term.
If a hole large enough for her to creep out, is closed with wax, they will gnaw the wax away, and liberate her themselves, from her confinement.
It was very well for Margaret that the extreme quiet of the Harley Street house, during Edith's recovery from her confinement, gave her the natural rest which she needed.
But the confinement of the life in the lighthouse was not good for the growing girl, and Grace never was strong and robust as would be expected from the daughter of fishermen.
Towards the end of her life, long confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she had been imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism which often deprived her of the use of her limbs.
He was vastly surprized at this sight, as he had few if any friends from whom he could expect such a favour, slight as it was; and not one of his friends, as he was apprized, knew of his confinement.