[lit-ideas] Expectant Father (Was: Tautology)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:05:13 EDT
In a message dated 9/21/2004 10:29:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, pas@xxxxxxxx
writes:
Expectant Mother.
paul
Both collocations are recognised in the OED:
expectant mother, a pregnant woman;
also transf.; so expectant father.
The odd thing -- perhaps, for Stone -- is that the first two cites (1861,
1878) are for 'expectant father', in a rather social-anthropological sense
that may interest McCreery. I append it below, along with the others.
McEvoy will say that an expectant father (unlike an expectant mother) can be
refuted by Popper's method, etc. -- but that's irresponsible scientificism.
Cheers,
JL
1861 MAYNE REID Hero in spite of Himself I. 12
Whenever a Zapoteque woman is about to add one to the number of their
community, the expectant father of the child assembles all his relations in
his
cabin.
1878 TROLLOPE Is he Popenjoy? III. v. 56
There was a brutality about this which for a time made the expectant father
almost mad.
1882 R. K. DOUGLAS China iv. 87
The expectant mother's next desire is to discover of what sex her child will
be.
1918 Act 8 & 9 Geo. V c. 29 §1
Arrangements..for attending to the health of expectant mothers and nursing
mothers.
1960 M. BURTON Wild Animals Brit. Isles 97
In fox-hunting countries artificial burrows are constructed..of which the
expectant-mother vixen will avail herself.
1963 â??G. BAGBYâ?? Murder's Little Helper (1964) ii. 14
â??What kind of a burglar is it that swipes maternity clothes?â?? â??Expectant
father?â??
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