deadborn

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adjective

Stillborn.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivedeadborn (not comparable)

alternative dead-born

  1. 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 […], →OCLC
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    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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