deadborn
See also: dead-born
English
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Adjective
deadborn (not comparable)
- (dated, rare) Stillborn.
- 1777, David Hume, “My Own Life”, in Essays Moral, Political, Literary:
- Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 6: Hades]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one coffin.
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