Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as pregnancy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Pregnancy.

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  • noun Obsolete form of pregnancy.

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Examples

  • The Department of Health is committed to ensuring that women have access to safe reproductive health services including the termination of pregnance.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The grammar, vocabulary and the construction of words and sentences betray the awkward stiffness of a language in its first literary beginnings, but it is shown in all its youthful strength and pregnance.

    The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

  • And all the time the essayist is dropping phrases which surely are unforgettable, striking us alike by their truth and their pregnance -- "this beautiful, wild, feline poetry, wild because left to range the wilds."

    Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

  • Have you ever considered that sex education worth its name does raise the confidence level in your children, thus half the underage drinking problem and most of the unwanted teenage pregnance -two fields where Britain sadly leads the European table- would be gone?

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • How does pregnance and excercise affect creatinine clearance results?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

  • How does pregnance and excercise affect creatinine clearance results?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

  • How does pregnance and excercise affect creatinine clearance results?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

  • How does pregnance and excercise affect creatinine clearance results?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

  • How does pregnance and excercise affect creatinine clearance results?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

  • How does pregnance and excercise affect creatinine clearance results?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

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  • pregnance, fertility, inventive power. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850

    April 23, 2018