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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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"Pregnant" Quotes from Famous Books

... be felled between early Autumn and the time when Favonius begins to blow. For in Spring all trees become pregnant, and they are all employing their natural vigour in the production of leaves and of the fruits that return every year. The requirements of that season render them empty and swollen, and so they are weak and feeble because of their looseness ...

— Ten Books on Architecture • Vitruvius

... predecessors, or by chance, knew precisely what was in store for them, and accordingly built some exceedingly fine castles in the air. But when they were suspected to be so knowing, they were sent away, and either married (if pregnant), or compelled to enter a cloister or chapter. The noble damsels were served with peculiar etiquette, their servants wore a green livery. Those who belonged to the ignobles, had their valets clothed only in gray. The king ...

— "Written by Herself" • Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon

... our religion from the East, instead of building up a religion of our own out of our western inspiration and western sentiment. The result is that we all believe that our religion is on its last legs, whereas the truth is that it is not yet born, though the age walks visibly pregnant with it. Meanwhile, as women are dragged down by their oriental servitude to our men, and as, further, women drag down those who degrade them quite as effectually as men do, there are moments when it is difficult to see anything in our sex institutions except a police des moeurs ...

— Getting Married • George Bernard Shaw

... solemnity and pomp, that "she would become the Mary of a new dispensation;" that is, she was going to be a mother. Well, this was all proper, no doubt, and the lady herself—so say the spiritualist accounts—had for some time experienced indications that she was pregnant. These indications continued, and became increasingly obvious, and also, it was observed, a little ...

— The Humbugs of the World • P. T. Barnum

... feathers. The only time they are forbidden to enter the kasgi is when the shaman is performing certain secret rites. They also have secret meetings of their own when all men are banished.[3] I happened to stumble on to one of these one time when they were performing certain rites over a pregnant woman, but being a white man, and therefore unaccountable, I was greeted with a good-natured laugh and ...

— The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo • Ernest William Hawkes

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