abortion – English noun declension

English noun forms of abortion

Noun: abortion
Singularabortion
Pluralabortions

Sample Sentences

  • Swines-bread, so used, doth not onely speed / A tardy labour; but (without great heed) / If over it a Child-great Woman stride, / Instant abortion often doth betide. [1605 [1578], Josuah, transl. Sylvester, “The Third Day of the First Week”, in Devine Weekes and Workes, translation of La Premiere Sepmaine by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, lines 693–696:]
  • At any time after impregnation, abortion may take place: it is one of the most common complaints of pregnancy, whence it is a matter of no small consequence that every practitioner should well understand it. [1809, William Nicholson, The British Encyclopaedia, volume IV:]
  • Mary decided to have an abortion because she was too young to raise a baby.
  • It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months. [1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93:]
  • The story of Ms. He and her mother began in the early 1960s, shortly before the Cultural Revolution shook China. Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried. “They were told by the factory, ‘Have an abortion or be fired’,” she said. They chose to keep her and were fired. [2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2023, Sinosphere:]
  • Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania will resign from Congress after claims that the anti-abortion Republican had urged a woman he was having an extramarital affair with to have an abortion. [2017 October 5, Ben Jacobs, The Guardian:]
  • ‘It seems too hairy for an abortion, and too small for a mature birth.’ [1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 657:]
  • The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid little abortion such as one sees in a glass jar in the museum of some county town. [1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own:]
  • Insomuch that I do honestly believe, there can be no place in the world, where such intolerable abortions, begotten of the sculptor’s chisel, are to be found in such profusion, as in Rome. [1846, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in Pictures from Italy:]
  • His voice was the most pitiable abortion of a voice I had ever heard. [1889, Edward Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, New York, page 459, column 2:]
  • Dickey on his own manages to turn a simple bo diddley 1-2-3-4 into an absolute abortion of a song. [2000, Jules, “please dont buy beacon cd”, in alt.fan.allman-brothers (Usenet):]
  • an absolute abortion of a book [2003, David Kerekes, Headpress 24: Powered by Love, page 133:]
  • The returning good sense of our country threatens abortion to their hopes, & they believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. [1800 September 23, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush^(http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj090069))):]
  • The transfer or loss of the project manager before the project is completed will result in lost continuity and delay or the abortion of the project and/or the report. [2013, Fakhry A. Assaad, James W. LaMoreaux, Travis Hughes, Field Methods for Geologists and Hydrogeologists, →ISBN, page 314:]
  • […] the abrupt abortion of the trip after eleven days. [2015, Gabriele Brandstetter, Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space, →ISBN, page 73:]

Etymology

From Latin abortiōnem (“miscarriage, abortion”), from aborior (“to miscarry”). Equivalent to abort + -ion. Displaced native Old English ǣwyrp (literally “throwing out, rejection”). See: Latin Nouns 'abortiō'.