nursekeepern.
/ˈnəːsˌkiːpə/, U.S. /ˈnərsˌkipər/ Now historical and rare.
A nurse who tends the sick. Cf. keeper n. 1e. Also figurative.
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nouricec1225
keeper?c1450
nursekeeper1602
nursea1616
Parabolanus1673
sister1716
nurse-tendera1743
sick-nurse1816
Nightingale1862
Norlander1944
1602 F. Herring tr. J. Oberndorf Anatomyes True Physition 4 Chattering Char-women and Nurs-keepers [L. clinicae].
1653 Bp. J. Taylor Ενιαυτος: Course of Serm. i. viii. 101 When the heart of Man is..tended by those Nurse-Keepers of the Soul, it is not easie for a man to wander.
1656 W. Coles Art of Simpling 92 Democritus, when he lay a dying, heard his Nurse-keeper complaine.
1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 17 Neither..the nice attendance of Nursekeepers, nor the art of a dextrous Lucina.
1724 London Gaz. No. 6250/11 Mary Easton,..Widow and Nursekeeper.
1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper II. 243 I was turned out in the condition you see by my nurse-keeper.
1989 Econ. Hist. Rev. 42 340 Most of the women under ‘nursing and medicine’ described themselves as nurses or more commonly nursekeepers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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