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Unborn vs Unget - What's the difference?

unborn | unget |

As an adjective unborn

is not yet born; yet to come; future.

As a noun unborn

is (countable) a single offspring at any stage of gestation.

As a verb unget is

to cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn.

unborn

English

(wikipedia unborn)

Adjective

(-)
  • not yet born; yet to come; future.
  • not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
  • existing without birth or beginning.

    • Noun

  • (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, 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.
  • (uncountable) offspring collectively.
    • Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn .

    Quotations

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    unget

    English

    Verb

  • To cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn.
  • * Sheridan
    • I'll disown you, I'll disinherit you, I'll unget you.
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