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adjective

Pregnant adj.

Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.

Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. " A pregnant argument." " A pregnant brevity."

Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth. (Obs.) "Wherein the pregnant enemy does much."

Pregnant construction (Rhet.), one in which more is implied than is said; as, the beasts trembled forth from their dens, that is, came forth trembling with fright.

Pregnant adj. Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt. (Obs.) " Pregnant to good pity."

noun

Pregnant n. A pregnant woman. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Pregnant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... in upon her that a certain priest kept a concubine;[1592] and one day, meeting in the camp a woman dressed as a man, it was revealed to her that the woman was pregnant and that having already had one child she had made ...

— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France

... Polednice. Politics. Polygala. Polyglots. Polypodium. Ponds. "Poodle's Wedding." Popanz. Pope. Popelmann. Posthumous child. Post-mortem marriages. Pottery. Pramantha. Prayer. Precocity. Predestination. Pre-existence. P-r-e-f-a-c-e. Pregnant. Pre-natal marriages. Presents. Priest (child). (father). (mother). Priest and food. Primogeniture. Prithivi-matar. "Prophets." Proverbs (age). (child). (father). (genius). (mother). (parents). (youth). Proverbs of birds. Psammetichus. Psyche. ...

— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain

... says, "Blessed be He who has kept us alive," etc. One must bless for evil the source of good; and for good the source of evil. "He who supplicates for what is past?" "Such prayer is vain." "How?" His wife is pregnant, and he says, "God grant that my wife may bring forth a male child." Such prayer is vain. Or if one on the road hear the voice of lamentation in the city, and say, "God grant that it may not be my son, my house," ...

— Hebrew Literature

... place could no longer put up with the conditions, and went at a word. Their hard-won endurance was banished from their minds, and those who had quietly borne the whole burden on their shoulders were now becoming restive; they were as unwilling and unruly as a pregnant woman. It was as though they were acting under the inward compulsion of an invisible power, and were striving to break open the hard shell which lay over something new within them. One could perceive that painful ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... the paper and read another sentence, which, ere that illumination, had had no significance, but now was pregnant ...

— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson

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