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/mɪskˈɛrədʒ/ Listen

noun

Miscarriage n.

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."

Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous.

The act of bringing forth a child before the time it is viable; a premature birth, resulting in death of the fetus; spontaneous abortion.

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Etymology of 'Miscarriage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Miscarriage" Quotes from Famous Books

... us luck in lotteries, love, and marriage; I cannot say that she's done much for me yet; Not that I mean her bounties to disparage, We've not yet closed accounts, and we shall see yet How much she'll make amends for past miscarriage; Meantime the Goddess I'll no more importune, Unless to thank her when she's made ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron

... God will, miscarriage in this matter, I shall propound unto you what it is for a work to be rightly good. First, A good work must have the word for its authority. Second, It must, as afore was said, flow from faith. Third, It must be both rightly timed ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... every criminal talks of a mistake. Go to the hulks and question the convicts; they are almost all victims of a miscarriage of justice. So this speech raises a faint smile in all who come into contact with the suspected, accused, ...

— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac

... principles and abstractions, the un-English dialect and destructive dialectic, of his former acquaintances were predominant in the National Assembly, his suspicion that the movement would end in disastrous miscarriage ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various

... the Queen held, faster or looser, by her bed of sickness, as a main refuge in these emergencies: the last shift of oppressed womankind;—sanctioned by Female Parliament, in this instance. "Has had a miscarriage!" writes Dubourgay, from Berlin gossip, at the beginning of the business. Nay at one time she became really ill, to a dangerous length; and his Majesty did not at first believe it; and then was like to break his heart, ...

— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

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