| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.60 | Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride, | I, and alay this thy abortiue Pride: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.104 | Why should I joy in an abortive birth? | Why should I ioy in any abortiue birth? |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.21 | If ever he have child, abortive be it, | If euer he haue Childe, Abortiue be it, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.227 | Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog! | Thou eluish mark'd, abortiue rooting Hogge, |
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| abortive | monstrously ill-timed, abhorrent and untimely |
| abortive | monstrous, defective, unnatural |
| abortive | abortion of nature, abnormality |
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