with child
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with child
Where it comes from
Replaced the earlier Middle English mid childe. Compare Danish and Swedish med barn.
phrase
- Pregnant. 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.
