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Webster 1913 Edition


Unborn

Un-born′

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Adj.
Not born; not yet brought into life; being still to appear; future.
Some
unborn
sorrow, ripe in fortune’s womb.
Shakespeare
See future sons, and daughters yet
unborn
.
Pope.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unborn

UNBORN'

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Definition 2024


unborn

unborn

English

Adjective

unborn (not comparable)

  1. not yet born; yet to come; future.
  2. not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
  3. existing without birth or beginning.

Translations

Noun

unborn (countable and uncountable, plural unborns)

  1. (countable) A single unborn 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.
  2. (uncountable) Unborn offspring collectively.
    Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.

Quotations

  • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:unborn.