Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Still-born.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Stillborn.
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- adjective dated, rare
Stillborn .
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Examples
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Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one coffin.
Ulysses 2003
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Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one coffin.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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I had a son deadborn, which I perceived abated something of the king's ardor; for his temper could not brook the least disappointment.
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I had a son deadborn, which I perceived abated something of the king's ardor; for his temper could not brook the least disappointment.
A journey from this world to the next — Volume 2 Henry Fielding 1730
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It fell _deadborn from the press_ without reaching such a distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots. "
Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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