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family-way

noun as in family way

noun as in being pregnant

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Example Sentences

His wife, not less anxious to gratify him in this respect, wrote to him while at sea, that she was in the family way.

The stories got fewer and clearer when it came out that the young woman was in the family way.

Griffith had observed, at last, what all the females in the house had seen two months ago, that Mrs. Gaunt was in the family way.

But during her papacy she became in the family way by a familiar.

She visited Mrs. M. freely and familiarly in a family way, but would never dine when she had company, nor remain if company came.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to family-way, such as: carrying a child, expecting, gravid, pregnant, and with child.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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