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▪ I. † ˈpregnantly, adv.1 Obs.
[f. pregnant a.1 + -ly2.]
Of argument, proof, etc.: Cogently, forcibly, clearly.
c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. ii. 1237 And voyd ȝour resoun well & pregnantly. 1604T. Wright Passions iv. ii. §1. 125 Play pregnantly prooueth passions. 1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 24 What more pregnantly confirm'd me he was the real Artabazus. 1765Law tr. Behmen's Myst. Magnum xliii. (1772) 254 We here see very fully and pregnantly.
▪ II. ˈpregnantly, adv.2
[f. pregnant a.2 + -ly2.]
In a pregnant manner or state.
1. ‘Fruitfully’ (Johnson 1755).
b. In a form capable of development. rare.
1884J. Tait Mind in Matter (1892) 58 It is reiterated that all forms of life existed pregnantly in the first germs.
2. In a manner implying more than is expressed; significantly; suggestively.
1879Whitney Sanskrit Gram. 359 Often, the iti is used more pregnantly. 1897New Eng. Dict. III. 65/3 A deal is used pregnantly for a good or great deal. |