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Definition of Misborn
1. a. Born to misfortune.
Definition of Misborn
1. Adjective. (rare) Born prematurely; abortive. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: pejorative now rare) Of low birth, illegitimate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misborn
1. abortive [adj] - See also: abortive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misborn
Literary usage of Misborn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1903)
"... and uncon- ninge, / ye have misborn yow and trespassed un-to me; / yet, for
as much as I see and ..."
2. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1907)
"I hurried by the cottage of the misborn Neill boys. It was empty, and they were
grown into fat, lazy farm-hands. I saw the home of the Hick- mans, ..."
3. A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms by Frederick George Lee (1877)
"misborn.—Born to evil. MISCHNA. —1. The text of the Jewish Talmud. 2. The ancient
code of the Jewish civil and common law, or an explanatory comment on the ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"Come back, and put me on your neck, misborn Mountain. Return, Splendour of the
Hillsides. Adornment or all India, heave to, or I'll bang every toe off your ..."
5. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"Behold, ye misborn elves of Lucifer, your impious actions; in this very thing ye
join yourselves unto Apollyon, ye in- camp against God that made you, ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1877)
"... and their might; The misborn head of Mordred, sad as night, With cold waste
cheeks and eyes as keen as pain, And the close angry lips of Agravaine ..."
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