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pregnation

pregnation noun: pregnancy.

Noun

pregnation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Pregnancy.
    • Pregnation. Being great with childe.[…]a being great with Childe. Pregnation, Grauidation.[1623, H[enry] C[ockeram], The English Dictionarie: or, an Interpreter of Hard English VVords. Enabling as Well Ladies and Gentlewomen, Young Schollers, Clarkes, Merchants, as Also Strangers of Any...
    • But purging is more proper if it may bee done without danger, as it may in the fourth, fift and ſixt month of pregnation: for a child in the wombe is compared to an Apple on the tree.1636, Iohn Sadler, The Sicke VVomans Private Looking-Glasse Wherein Methodically Are Handled All Uterine Affects, or Diseases Arising from the Wombe; Enabling Women to Informe the Physician about the...

Origin of pregnation

From Middle English pregnacioun, from Old French pregnacion and Latin praegnātiō.

Questions about pregnation

What does pregnation mean?
Pregnation means pregnancy.
What part of speech is pregnation?
Pregnation is a noun.

Words near pregnation in the dictionary

  1. pregnate
  2. pregnated
  3. pregnates
  4. pregnathal
  5. pregnating
  6. pregnation
  7. pregnatriene
  8. pregnatrienes
  9. pregnaunt
  10. pregnedioside
  11. pregnene

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