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With child
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Adjective
- 1 in an advanced stage of pregnancy wordnet
Prep_phrase
- 1 Pregnant. euphemistic
"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."
Etymology
Replaced the earlier Middle English mid childe. Compare Danish and Swedish med barn.
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