Accident Of Birth Meaning

Example : 1899, Charles W. Chesnutt, "Uncle Wellington's Wives" in The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories:  [H]e said to himself that he was a very good-looking man, and could have adorned a much higher sphere in life than that in which the accident of birth had placed him.1910, William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger, ch. 4:  "You're no brother of mine," she broke in. "At most it is an accident of birth I disown. I'll have no relationship with you of any sort."1915, Rex Ellingwood Beach, Heart of the Sunset, ch. 9:  An accident of birth had made him a citizen of the United States—his father having owned a ranch which lay north instead of south of the Rio Grande.