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contracept

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Definition of contracept

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To use contraception
    “Through the wisdom of our legislators, only the intelligent may contracept, while the stupid are commanded to reproduce their kind.”
    “… the facile assumption that we may be able to contracept our way to the Great Society.”
    “it is also assumed that women who breastfeed being contracepting as soon as they stop breastfeeding unless the sum of the duration of breastfeeding and the duration of contraception is greater than the length of the interval from last birth to next conception”
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verb

  1. (intransitive)To use contraception
    “Through the wisdom of our legislators, only the intelligent may contracept, while the stupid are commanded to reproduce their kind.”
    “… the facile assumption that we may be able to contracept our way to the Great Society.”
    “it is also assumed that women who breastfeed being contracepting as soon as they stop breastfeeding unless the sum of the duration of breastfeeding and the duration of contraception is greater than the length of the interval from last birth to next conception”
  2. (transitive)To administer contraception, especially to a population of wild animals

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Etymology

Back-formation from contraception. Attested US 1932, with earlier occasional use as abbreviation for contraceptive in the medical literature; popularized US mid-1960s in the context of the sexual revolution.

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