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accidents of birth

n. (accident of birth English)

Usage examples of "accidents of birth".

At present we punish people for accidents of birth and circumstance in much the same manner.

I accept it, as one accepts and learns to live with disfigurement, handicaps of various sorts, and accidents of birth and fate.

When people were more closely tied to their birthplaces, their kin, and the social milieux into which they were born, they were compelled to associate with a variety of people, many of them uncongenial, with whom they were connected by accidents of birth or geography.

Why, owing to accidents of birth prophecy etcetera, must I be responsible for language riots and after‑.