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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aborning

1893, American English, from a- (1) + born + -ing (2).

Wiktionary
aborning

a. (context chiefly North America English) While being born or produced. (First attested in the mid 20th century.) adv. (context chiefly North America English) That is in the process of being born; coming into existence; before coming to completion. (First attested in the mid 20th century.)(reference-book editor=Brown, Lesley title=The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary origyear=1933 edition=5th year=2003 publisher=Oxford University Press location=Oxford, UK isbn=978-0-19-860575-7 pages=6 chapter)

WordNet
aborning

adj. in the process of being born or beginning; "our own revolutionary war almost died aborning through lack of popular support"- William Randolph Hearst [ant: dying(a)]

Usage examples of "aborning".

Conquerors followed, and conquerors of those, an empire killed its mother aborning, a religion called men to strange hilltops, a new race and a new state bestrode the Earth.

Doubtlessly, she would leave Jerusalem along with Boomer, although her curiosity about the new dimension of being that was aborning there had hardly been satisfied.

It came to him with the force of a revelation that Cass excelled in everything she did, and that had she not married him all these talents would have died aborning This aroused in him a fierce protectiveness towards her which he had not suspected he possessed.

The solar system aborning was all sky, a sky full of rubble, a sky full of surprises.

Even a half-blind dolt could have seen another such outburst here aborning, and Bili was more perceptive than most.

Arutha turned to order the remaining rider back to warn the castle, but the shouted command died aborning when he saw the man pulled from his saddle by swarming figures in black.

They knew of Mignureal, and of her Sight aborning, for they were gods.

The labor is difficult and long, and it may get worse before the vagitus is heard, but don't despair over the Middle East: something great, something wondrous, something completely unimaginable is there aborning.