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deadborn en · ADJ

Etymology

From dead + born.

Meanings

1. (dated, not-comparable, rare) Stillborn.
   • 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:
   • 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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