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Webster 1913 Edition
Pregnance
Preg′nance
,Noun.
Pregnancy.
[Obs.]
Milton.
Definition 2024
pregnance
pregnance
See also: prégnance
English
Noun
pregnance (usually uncountable, plural pregnances)
- Obsolete form of pregnancy.
- 1645, John Milton, Colasterion
- Only in the passage following, I cannot but admire the ripenes, and the pregnance of his native trechery, endeavouring to bee more a Fox then[sic] his wit will suffer him.
- 1645, John Milton, Colasterion