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Thread #93804   Message #1809233
Posted By: Peace
13-Aug-06 - 11:11 PM
Thread Name: Tom Paxton's lyrics - dies a-bornin'
Subject: RE: Tom Paxton's lyrics
a·born·ing (-bôrnng)
adv.
While coming into being or being created: "Our own revolutionary war almost died aborning through lack of popular support" William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
adj.
Coming into being or being created.

I sit corrected by the on-line dictionary. (The shame of it all . . . .)