miscarrying
English
Verb
miscarrying
- present participle of miscarry
Noun
miscarrying (plural miscarryings)
- Something that has gone astray or been made wrongly.
- 1932, Rudyard Kipling, The Playmate
- Where, from the trivial flux of Things,
Rise unconceived miscarryings […]
- Where, from the trivial flux of Things,
- 2013, Wilfrid Lay, The Child's Unconscious Mind
- But we do see imperfect things in nature, dwarfed, blasted trees and other apparent miscarryings. Yet they are as perfect as their environment allows them to be.
- 1932, Rudyard Kipling, The Playmate