abortiveness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
abortiveness (usually uncountable, plural abortivenesses)
- (uncountable) The quality of being abortive. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
- (countable) The result or product of being abortive.
Translations[edit]
quality of being abortive
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References[edit]
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abortiveness”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.