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alternative dead-born
- datednot comparablerareStillborn.
Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one coffin.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 6: Hades]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC1 more example
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.
1777, David Hume, “My Own Life”, in Essays Moral, Political, Literary
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