Swaddling dictionary definition

swaddling

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Verb

Present participle of swaddle.

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural swaddlings)

The practice of wrapping infants in clothing that restricts movement.
Clothing of this kind.

swaddling

Variant of swaddle

transitive verb

swaddled, swaddling

to wrap (a newborn baby) in swaddling clothes, a blanket, etc.
to bind in or as in bandages; swathe

Origin of swaddle

Middle English swathlen, probably altered (infl. by swathen, to swathe) ; from swethlen ; from Old English swethel, swaddling band, akin to swathian, to swathe

noun

a cloth, bandage, etc. used for swaddling

Origin of swaddle

ME swathil < OE swethel: see swaddlethe

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It convinces me that Earth is still in her swaddling-clothes, and stretches forth baby fingers on every side.
Swaddling of babies was a popular method of attempting to prevent bowing of bones (Sweet 1997, 820).
They dressed him in green swaddling cloth, and named him Alder.
She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
He is clothed in pure, white swaddling clothes which stand out from the darkness of the cave where He has been born.

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Adam Smith, who has strong claim to being both the Adam and the Smith of systematic economics , was a professor of moral philosophy and it was at that forge that economics was made. Even when I was a student, economics was still part of the moral sciences tripos at Cambridge University. It can claim to be a moral science, therefore, from its origin, if for no other reason. Nevertheless, for many economists the very term “moral science” will seem like a contradiction. We are strongly imbued today with the view that science should be wertfrei and we believe that science has achieved its triumph precisely because it has escaped the swaddling clothes of moral judgment and has only been able to take off into the vast universe of the “is” by escaping from the treacherous launching pad of the “ought.” Even economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought. Kenneth Boulding