deadborn

See also: dead-born

English

Alternative forms

• dead-born

Etymology

From dead +‎ born.

Adjective

deadborn (not comparable)

1. (dated, rare) Stillborn.
   • 1777, David Hume, “My Own Life”, in Essays Moral, Political, Literary:

     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 6: Hades]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one coffin.

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