miscarriage

Definitions

1. A failure; a mistake or error.
   countable, uncountable
2. The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“for feare least blame⟳ / Of her miscarriage should in her be fond, / She wist not how t'amend, nor how it to withstond.”

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