Meanings
comparative child-greater · comparative more child-great · superlative child-greatest · superlative most child-great
- obsoletePregnant.
Swines-bread, so used, doth not onely speed / A tardy labour; but (without great heed) / If over it a Child-great Woman stride, / Instant abortion often doth betide.
1605 [1578], Josuah, transl. Sylvester, “The Third Day of the First Week”, in Devine Weekes and Workes, translation of La Premiere Sepmaine by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, lines 693–696
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From child + great (“pregnant”) (obsolete), an alternative manner of saying “great with child”. Compare big with child and heavy with child.
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