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still-born en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative spelling of stillborn.
    alt of stillborn
    • Such were my early but forgotten productions,—still-born innocents. The writers of the Gulielmian age, of whom so much had been asked, did, of course, just nothing at all for them. 1872, R[obert] G[ordon] Latham, “Prefatory Remarks”, in A Defence of Phonetic Spelling; Drawn from a History of the English Alphabet and Orthography; with a Remedy for Their Defects, London: Fred[erick] Pitman, […]; Bath, Somerset: Isaac Pitman, […], →OCLC, page 6: