miscarrying

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of miscarry

plural miscarryings

1. Something that has gone astray or been made wrongly.

   Where, from the trivial flux of Things, Rise unconceived miscarryings […]

   1932, Rudyard Kipling, The Playmate

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   But we do see imperfect things in nature, dwarfed, blasted trees and other apparent miscarryings. Yet they are as perfect as their environment allows them to be.

   2013, Wilfrid Lay, The Child's Unconscious Mind