Preg"nant , a. [F. prenant taking. Cf. Pregnable.]
Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt. [Obs.] "
Pregnant to good pity." Shak.
Preg"nant , n. A pregnant woman. [R.]
Dunglison.
Preg"nant (?), a. [L. praegnans, -antis; prae before + genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F.
prégnant. See Gender, 2d Kin.]
1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant
replies. " A pregnant argument."
Prynne. " A pregnant brevity."
E. Everett.
3. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth. [Obs.] Evelyn.
Wherein the
pregnant enemy does much.
Shak. Pregnant construction (Rhet.), one in which
more is implied than is said; as, the beasts trembled forth
from their dens, that is, came
forth trembling with fright.
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