Meaning of with child | Babel Free

Definitions

Pregnant.

euphemistic

Equivalents

Examples

“I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.”

“[N]othing vvas more frightful to me than his Careſſes, and the Apprehenſions of being vvith Child again by him, vvas ready to throvv me into Fits; […]”

“Worf: I was not aware you had a son. Lursa: I do not. But I am with child.”

“I should have had two children, but I find myself with only one. Yet he spends his time with other women who are already with child.”

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