family way

noun

1. family ( def 20 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of family way¹

First recorded in 1790–1800

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.

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

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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.

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

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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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