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pregnant
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Definition:2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty;3. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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To Charlotte the moment was pregnant to the point of bursting.
Tom Wolfe. I am Charlotte Simmons, p.342 (2004)
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talking in reverent tones of how Tom did so-and-so the last time they saw him, and how Joe said this and that small trifle (pregnant with awful prophecy, as they could easily see now!)
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
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An old gentleman in Naples seeing his pregnant wit, his eloquent tongue somewhat taunting yet with delight: his mirth without measure, yet not without wit: his sayings vainglorious, yet pithy
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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With a bare fricace of your med'cine: still / You increase your friends.
Tribulation: Ay, it is very pregnant.
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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How pregnant sometimes his replies are!
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Next to Lazzaro was the poor old high school teacher, Edgar Derby, mournfully pregnant with patriotism and middle age and imaginary wisdom. And so on.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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In the matter of eyes, also, my acquaintance was pre-eminently endowed. Either one of such a pair was worth a couple of the ordinary ocular organs. They were of a deep hazel, exceedingly large and lustrous; and there was perceptible about them, ever and anon, just that amount of interesting obliquity which gives pregnancy to expression.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: Loss of Breath (1832)
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