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• dead-born

Adjective

deadborn ‎(not comparable)

1. (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, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 6 - Hades,

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

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