Couvade

Word COUVADE
Character 7
Hyphenation cou vade
Pronunciations /kuːˈvæd/

Definitions and meanings of "Couvade"

What do we mean by couvade?

A practice in certain cultures in which the husband of a woman in labor takes to his bed as though he were bearing the child. noun

A custom, reported in ancient as well as modern times among some of the primitive races in all parts of the world, in accordance with which, after the birth of a child, the father takes to bed, and receives the delicacies and careful attention usually given among civilized people to the mother. noun

A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill. noun

A practice among some peoples, such as the Basques, of the husband of a woman in the last stages of pregnancy taking to bed, avoiding certain foods, or imitating other behaviours of a pregnant woman. noun

Sympathetic pregnancy: the involuntary sympathetic experience of the husband of symptoms of his wife's pregnancy, such as weight gain or morning sickness. noun

A custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child noun

A practice among some peoples, such as the Basques, of the husband of a woman in the last stages of pregnancy taking to bed, avoiding certain foods, or imitating other behaviours of a pregnant woman.

Sympathetic pregnancy: the involuntary sympathetic experience of the husband of symptoms of his wife's pregnancy, such as weight gain or morning sickness.

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The word "couvade" in example sentences

In the late 19th century, psychologists termed male pregnancy symptoms couvade, from the French word "couver," meaning "to incubate" or "to brood" like a mother bird. ❋ Jena Pincott (2011)

The couvade is a practical survival from the days of women's rule. ❋ Unknown (1923)

The practice of that very curious custom, the "couvade," seems to be still in force among some of the Arizona Indian tribes, among whom so many other mysterious rites and customs prevail. ❋ Thomas Carson (N/A)

I allude to the singular custom of the "couvade," in which the father is put to bed on the birth of a child. ❋ Thomas Belt (1855)

Those who experienced couvade were the type who clucked and cooed whenever their babies cried. ❋ Jena Pincott (2011)

Freudians attributed couvade to "fetus envy," but recent science has found that it's not so cuckoo. ❋ Jena Pincott (2011)

When it happens to humans, it's called 'couvade syndrome' as if it was some sort of illness. ❋ Field Notes (2009)

This strange malady, resembling the _couvade_ among certain savage nations, ordinarily lasted five days and four nights, but on this occasion the Ulstermen were prostrate from the beginning of November till the beginning of February. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The grotesque comedy of the couvade, which proved a tragedy so often for the poor mother compelled by the custom to rise in her weakness and even neglect her new-born baby, in order to do double work and to tempt the appetite of her lord after his make-believe pangs of childbirth, was one sign that primitive consciousness found the new knowledge of double parentage very exciting. ❋ Anna Garlin Spencer (N/A)

The fathers stand about in manly attitudes, concealing all signs of couvade. ❋ Unknown (1938)

The couvade prevails or has prevailed very widely. ❋ Unknown (1923)

Herein, according to the authors of the present work, is to be found the true explanation of the couvade, of the putting of the father to bed when his ❋ Unknown (1923)

Kublai had to the full that noble curiosity which is the beginning of wisdom, and it irked him exceedingly that his envoys, good conscientious men, followed their noses upon his business, looking neither to right nor to left, and as like as not never even noticed that among the aboriginal hill tribes of the interior called Miaotzu there prevailed the peculiar and entertaining custom of the _couvade_, wherein ❋ Eileen Edna Power (1914)

They had most of the customs of the Guaycuru, including the couvade. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

In connexion with childbirth most of the tribes practised the couvade, the father keeping his bed for some days, subjected to rigid diet and other taboos, until released by a ceremonial exorcism. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The woman receives little attention in pregnancy or childbirth, but on the other hand the father conforms to the couvade. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Polygamy exists, as also, according to some travellers, the curious custom of the couvade. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The logic by which the great female principle in the Deity has been eliminated, and the subterfuges which have been and still are employed to construct and sustain a Creator who of himself is powerless to create, is as amusing as it is suggestive, and forcibly recalls to mind la couvade, in which, among certain tribes, the father, assuming all the duties of procreation, goes to bed when a child is born. 12 ❋ Unknown (1897)

This authority also mentions that the French call husbands who have well-developed mammæ ` ` la couvade; '' the Germans call male supernumerary breasts ` ` bauchwärze, '' or ventral nipples. ❋ Unknown (1896)

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