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Pregnancy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The state of a female who has conceived, or is with child.

2. Fertility; fruitfulness; inventive power; as the pregnancy of wit or invention.

3. Pregnance, in a like sense, is not used.

Pregnancy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.

2. Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important contents, issue, significance, etc.; unusual consequence or capacity; fertility.