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Webster 1913 Edition


Miscarriage

Mis-car′riage

,
Noun.
1.
Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a proper or desired result or reach a destination;
as, a serious
miscarriage
of justice
.
When a counselor, to save himself,
Would lay
miscarriages
upon his prince.
Dryden.
2.
Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior;
as, the failings and
miscarriages
of the righteous
.
Rogers.

Webster 1828 Edition


Miscarriage

MISCAR'RIAGE

,
Noun.
Unfortunate event of an undertaking; failure.
When a counselor, to save himself,
Would lay miscarriages upon his prince.
1.
Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as the failings and miscarriages of the righteous.
2.
Abortion; the act of bringing forth before the time.

Definition 2024


miscarriage

miscarriage

English

Noun

miscarriage (countable and uncountable, plural miscarriages)

  1. (now rare except in miscarriage of justice) A failure; a mistake or error. [from 16th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
      for feare least blame / Of her miscarriage should in her be fond, / She wist not how t'amend, nor how it to withstond.
  2. The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. [from 17th c.]

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