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Webster 1913 Edition


Pregnancy

Preg′nan-cy

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Noun.
1.
The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.
2.
Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important contents, issue, significance, etc.; unusual consequence or capacity; fertility.
Fuller.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pregnancy

PREG'NANCY

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Noun.
[See Pregnant.] The state of a female who has conceived, or is with child.
1.
Fertility; fruitfulness; inventive power; as the pregnancy of wit or invention.
Pregnance, in a like sense, is not used.

Definition 2024


pregnancy

pregnancy

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Noun

pregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural pregnancies)

  1. (countable) The condition of being pregnant.
    • 2012, Caroline Davies, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are expecting first baby (in The Guardian, 3 December 2012)
      News that the duchess is in the "very early stages" of pregnancy with the third-in-line to the throne was officially released after she was taken to the King Edward VII hospital in central London, suffering from hyperemesis gravidarun, very acute morning sickness.
  2. The period of time this condition prevails.
  3. (uncountable) The progression of stages from conception to birth.

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