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full term

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Noun1.full term - the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent; "a healthy baby born at full term"
term
point in time, point - an instant of time; "at that point I had to leave"
gestation, gestation period - the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans)


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And not till those seventy breaths are told, will he finally go down to stay out his full term below.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
I had never told her my feelings, and she could not be expected to divine them; I had not been with her a full term, and she was justified in not allowing me a full vacation.
Agnes Grey by Bronte, Anne View in context
When they got out the other day, which was some years before their full term, they set themselves, as you perceive, to hunt down the traitor and to avenge the death of their comrade upon him.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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