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misbirth

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abortion.

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  • noun An abortion.

Etymologies

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From Middle English, from Old English misbyrd ("abortion"), from Proto-Germanic *missa- (“mis-”), *burdiz, *burþiz (“birth, carriage”), equivalent to mis- +‎ birth. Cognate with Dutch misgeboorte ("miscarriage"), German Missgeburt ("abortion"). Compare also misbreyde.

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Examples

  • They deny my right to live and be and call me misbirth!

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • A misbirth with a trailing navelcord, hushed in ruddy wool.

    Ulysses 2003

  • They deny my right to live and be and call me misbirth!

    Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil 1915

  • A misbirth with a trailing navelcord, hushed in ruddy wool.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Nor could we ever overcome famine, disease, or misbirth, or make the world one bit better than it has been for - "

    A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

  • Thou blasphemous scandalous misbirth of Nature, is not even _that_ the kindest thing I can do for thee, if thou repent not, and alter in the name of Allah? '"

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

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