Unborn vs Preborn - What's the difference?
unborn | preborn | see also |
not yet born; yet to come; future.
not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
existing without birth or beginning.
(countable) A single offspring at any stage of gestation.
* 2009 , Catherine Playoust & Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, "The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature", in Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (eds. Vanessa R. Sasson & Jane Marie Law), Oxford University Press (2009), ISBN 9780195380040,
(uncountable) offspring collectively.
Not yet born.
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As adjectives the difference between unborn and preborn
is that unborn is not yet born; yet to come; future while preborn is not yet born.As a noun unborn
is a single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.unborn
English
(wikipedia unborn)Adjective
(-)Noun
page 176:
- Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.
- Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn .
Quotations
*preborn
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Adjective
(-)Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent?, page=141 , passage=It is common to think of preborn human life as weak, dependent and helpless.}}