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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Preg·nant a.
 1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. A pregnant argument.” --Prynne. A pregnant brevity.”
 3. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth. [Obs.]
    Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.   --Shak.
 Pregnant construction Rhet., one in which more is implied than is said; as, the beasts trembled forth from their dens, that is, came forth trembling with fright.