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Stillborn   /stˈɪlbˈɔrn/   Listen
Stillborn

adjective
1.
Failing to accomplish an intended result.  Synonyms: abortive, unsuccessful.  "A stillborn plot to assassinate the President"
2.
(of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn.



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"Stillborn" Quotes from Famous Books



... favourably—even to the cessation of intercourse between Russell and the Southern Commissioners. For his part, Lincoln, no more than earlier, was to be hurried into foreign complications, and Seward's "foreign war panacea" was stillborn. ...
— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams
... menstruous woman; and for a full lunar month she must live apart from her housemates, observing the same rules with regard to eating and drinking as at her monthly periods. The case is still worse, the pollution is still more deadly, if she has had a miscarriage or has been delivered of a stillborn child. In that case she may not go near a living soul: the mere contact with things she has used is exceedingly dangerous: her food is handed to her at the end of a long stick. This lasts generally for three weeks, after which she may go home, ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer


Words linked to "Stillborn" :   dead, stillborn infant, unsuccessful, unfruitful, abortive


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