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pregnancy (iou)



pregnancy noun. L15.
[from PREGNANT adjective1: see -ANCY.]
Fertility of the mind, inventiveness, imaginative power; quickness or readiness of wit. L15.
Clarendon He was chosen to..deceive a whole Nation..: which he did with notable pregnancy and dexterity. P. Heylin A pregnancy of judgment above his years.
The condition or an instance of being pregnant. E16.
multiple pregnancy: see MULTIPLE adjective. PHANTOM pregnancy. toxaemia of pregnancy: see TOXAEMIA 2. tubal pregnancy: see TUBAL 2.
J. H. Burn Women require much larger amounts of iron during pregnancy to supply the foetus. A. Massie She worked through the first months of her pregnancy. Newsweek There were a million teenage pregnancies last year.
Fertility of soil, plants, etc.; fruitfulness; abundance. E17.
a. Latent capacity to produce results; potentiality. E19.
G. Sarton Revolutionary efforts comparable in their pregnancy to those of Eudoxos.
b. Latent significance of words, speech, etc.; suggestiveness. M19.
Comb.: pregnancy test: to establish whether a woman (or female animal) is pregnant.