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Webster 1913 Edition


Pregnance

Preg′nance

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Noun.
Pregnancy.
[Obs.]
Milton.

Definition 2024


pregnance

pregnance

See also: prégnance

English

Noun

pregnance (usually uncountable, plural pregnances)

  1. 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.