grav´id|ness

grav´id|ness
grav|id «GRAV eed», adjective.
1. = pregnant. (Cf.pregnant)
2. Figurative. filled; expanded: »

The prim, serious young Queen, already gravid with middle-class virtue (New Yorker).

[< obsolete French gravide < Latin gravidus pregnant, laden, filled < gravis heavy]
grav´id|ly, adverb.
grav´id|ness, noun.

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