different between unborn vs unorn

English

Etymology

un- +? born

Adjective

unborn (not comparable)

1. Not yet born; yet to come; future.
2. Not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
3. Existing without birth or beginning.

Synonyms

• (not born): coming; see also Thesaurus:future

Translations

Noun

unborn (countable and uncountable, plural unborns)

1. (countable) A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.
   • 2009, Catherine Playoust & Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, "The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature", in Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (eds. Vanessa R. Sasson & Jane Marie Law), Oxford University Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 176:

     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.

2. (uncountable) Unborn offspring collectively.

   Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unborn.

English

Alternative forms

• unorne, unourne

Etymology

From Middle English unorne, from Old English unorne (“old, obsolete, worn out, decrepit, simple”), from un- +? orne, orene (“excess, harm, injury”).

Adjective

unorn (comparative more unorn, superlative most unorn)

1. (obsolete) Old; worn out; feeble.

Anagrams

• run on, run-on