pregnantly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pregnant +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

pregnantly (comparative more pregnantly, superlative most pregnantly)

  1. In a pregnant manner.
  2. (obsolete) unresistingly; openly; hence, clearly, evidently
    • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 95:
      A thousand moral paintings I can show / That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's / More pregnantly than words.

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