unborn meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

unborn

adj

Etymology From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born.

Not yet born; yet to come; future.

Not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.

Ellen Page gives a star-making performance as a 16-year-old live wire who decides to go through with her pregnancy and seeks acceptably well-adjusted, wealthy, punk-rock loving parents for the unborn baby.2007 September 10, “Review: Jones, Coens, Penn highlight Toronto”, in CNN:

Existing without birth or beginning.

Synonyms: coming
Derived terms: innocent as the babe unborn, innocent as the child unborn, unborn child, unbornness

noun

Etymology From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born.

A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.

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.2009, Catherine Playoust, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, “The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature”, in Vanessa R. Sasson, Jane Marie Law, editors, Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176:

Unborn offspring collectively.