The usual date of churching was the fortieth day after confinement.
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Churching
Synonyms for "churching" (124 found)
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Scots
1 entries- kirking noun (Translations)
Swedish
1 entries- kyrktagning noun (Translations)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ви́від noun (Translations)
- уво́дини noun (Translations)
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The churching of women traditionally includes thanksgiving for the women's survival of childbirth.
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The clergyman had to dine some distance from town, and had got two churchings, three christenings, and a funeral, to perform in something less than an hour.
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As discussed in detail by Caroline Shenton, the churchings of Queen Philippa, for which the details following Isabella's birth in 1333 survive, represented a 'gigantic festival of a family whose start in life had been extremely unsteady'.
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