July 9, 2007

Aborning

aborning \uh-BOR-ning\, adverb:
1. While being produced or born.

adjective:
1. Being produced or born.


In universities at least as much as anywhere else, vast floods of words pour forth to no useful end. Nothing would be lost if they had died aborning.
-- Loren Lomasky, "Talking the talk: Have universities lost sight of why they exist?", Reason, May 2001

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