deadborn
See also: dead-born
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deadborn (not comparable)
- (dated, rare) Stillborn.
- 1777, David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, Literary, "My Own Life,"
- 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.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode Expression error: Unrecognized word "episode".]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part Expression error: Unrecognized word "episode"., 6 - Hades,/mode/1up page Episode 6 - Hades,:
- Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one coffin.
- 1777, David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, Literary, "My Own Life,"