See also: dead-born

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dead +‎ born

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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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