cramp ring

noun

A ring worn to supposedly prevent cramp, epilepsy and associated diseases, especially one specifically blessed by an English monarch before the Reformation.

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nouncramp ring (plural cramp rings)

plural cramp rings

  1. historicalA ring worn to supposedly prevent cramp, epilepsy and associated diseases, especially one specifically blessed by an English monarch before the Reformation.

    "Now you may have the traditional cramp-rings," Anne said, in that same high-pitched, haughty voice.

    2011, Margaret George, The Autobiography of Henry VIII, page 357
    1 more example

    The blessing of cramp-rings was abandoned immediately and without comment upon the accession of Elizabeth I.

    1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 193
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