Deadborn vs Stillborn - What's the difference?
deadborn | stillborn | Synonyms |
(dated, rare) Stillborn.
* 1777 , , Essays Moral, Political, Literary , "My Own Life,"
* 1922 , , Ulysses , Episode 6 - Hades,
Dead at birth.
* 1768 , , "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III,"
* 1978 , Holy Bible (New International Version) , Job 3:16,
(figuratively, by extension) Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.
* 1859 , , Love Me Little, Love Me Long , ch. 11,
* 1915 , , The Highgrader , ch. 18,
Deadborn is a synonym of stillborn.
As adjectives the difference between deadborn and stillborn
is that deadborn is (dated|rare) stillborn while stillborn is dead at birth.deadborn
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* dead-bornAdjective
(-)- 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.
- Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one coffin.
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*stillborn
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* still-bornAdjective
(-)- Queen Anne, before Elizabeth, bore a still-born son.
- Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?
- This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year. . . . Of these some were stillborn , but the majority hold the market.
- His lips framed themselves to whistle the first bars of a popular song, but the sound died stillborn .
