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prægnancy

prægnancy is the obsolete spelling of pregnancy.

Meaning of pregnancy

Noun

pregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural pregnancies)

  1. (countable) The condition of being pregnant; an instance of this.
    • News that the duchess is in the "very early stages" of pregnancy with the third-in-line to the throne was officially released after she was taken to the King Edward VII hospital in central London, suffering from hyperemesis gravidarun, very acute morning sickness.2012 December 3, Caroline Davies, The Guardian
  2. The period of time this condition prevails.
  3. (uncountable) The progression of stages from conception to birth.

Forms of prægnancy

pluralprægnancies

Origin of prægnancy

From prægnant + -cy.

Questions about prægnancy

What is prægnancy the obsolete spelling of?
Prægnancy is the obsolete spelling of pregnancy.

Words near prægnancy in the dictionary

  1. præfixa
  2. præfixes
  3. præfixing
  4. præfixt
  5. præfixum
  6. prægnancy
  7. prægnant
  8. præjudicate
  9. præjudice
  10. præjudiced
  11. præjudices

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prægnancy (page history and authors); pregnancy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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