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Mar 8, 2023

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interpunction
exuviate
cyesis
cogitate
blatteroon

“It’s... she’s... we’re...”
“You’d better hurry. His contractions are getting closer.”

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cyesis

PRONUNCIATION:

(sy-EE-sis)

MEANING:

noun: Pregnancy.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek kyesis (pregnancy).

USAGE:

“She greeted me at the door, her cyesis immediately evident, about the eighth month of it.”
Blossom Elfman; The Girls of Huntington House; Houghton Mifflin; 1972.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Death tugs at my ear and says, "Live, I am coming." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (1809-1894)

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