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"Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd". According to the definition accepted by the witches, this makes Macduff not "born of woman" and thus not subject to the prophecy that none of woman born could harm Macbeth.

It's a bit startling to us, since most of us think of people delivered by Caesarean section as being "born".

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