Unborn
[ʌn'bɔːn] or ['ʌn'bɔrn]
Definition
(a.) Not born; no yet brought into life; being still to appear; future.
Inputed by Hannibal
Definition
adj. not yet born: non-existent.
Checker: Willa
Examples
- In plainer terms still, the transaction, for anything that Lady Glyde knows to the contrary, may be a fraud upon her unborn children. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They are as innocent as the babe unborn. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We believe--Mas'r Davy, me, and all of us--that you are as innocent of everything that has befell her, as the unborn child. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- If I am doing wrong to help you, Mr. Franklin, he exclaimed, all I can say is--I am as innocent of seeing it as the babe unborn! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He was sent to the bank to pay money to his master's account--and he knows no more of the Moonstone than the babe unborn. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And I'll go another seven and sixpence to name which is the helplessest, the unborn baby or you! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The perfect pulse throbbed with indescribable being, miraculous unborn species. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Superintendent Seegrave found the Indians as innocent as the babe unborn. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I have looked at her, speculating thousands of times upon the unborn child from whom I had been rent. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There was a numbness upon him, a numbness either of unborn, absent volition, or of atrophy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In the cause of your wives and daughters, and of wives and daughters yet unborn. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Checker: Willa