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adverbpregnantly (comparative more pregnantly, superlative most pregnantly)
comparative more pregnantly · superlative most pregnantly
- In a pregnant manner.
- obsoleteunresistingly; openly; hence, clearly, evidently
A thousand moral paintings I can show / That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's / More pregnantly than words.
c. 1605–1608 (date written), 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
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