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Baseborn

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    bastard, illegitimate not-comparable

    "He said, "Though the law did not positively allow the destroying such base-born children, yet it held them to be the children of nobody; that the Church considered them as the children of nobody; and that at the best, they ought to be brought up to the lowest and vilest offices of the commonwealth.""

  2. 2
    Of lowly birth. not-comparable

    "And while the baſe borne Tartars take it vp, You fighting more for honor than for gold: Shall maſſacre those greedie minded ſlaues."

Adjective
  1. 1
    illegitimate wordnet
  2. 2
    of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense) wordnet

Etymology

From base + born.

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