Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An untimely birth; an abortion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Abortion.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then at the thought that this was abortment, not death -- that destruction would complete its work before the dreamt-of, vainly awaited denizens would bring life to the still-born houses, one's melancholy deepened to hopeless discouragement.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3 ��mile Zola 1871
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Then at the thought that this was abortment, not death -- that destruction would complete its work before the dreamt-of, vainly awaited denizens would bring life to the still-born houses, one's melancholy deepened to hopeless discouragement.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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Then at the thought that this was abortment, not death -- that destruction would complete its work before the dreamt-of, vainly awaited denizens would bring life to the still-born houses, one's melancholy deepened to hopeless discouragement.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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