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baseborn

[beys-bawrn] / ˈbeɪsˈbɔrn /


ADJECTIVE
illegitimate
Synonyms


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He scorned the feeble, ignorant, baseborn, wellborn, and those who loved him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only Robb and his baseborn half brother Jon Snow had been old enough to be worth his notice.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

O unhappy and baseborn men! you who prefer to depart from this life under the name of Hortensius rather than of Cato!

From The Banquet (Il Convito) by Elizabeth Price Sayer

Jacob the supplanter, Jacob the changeling, Jacob the baseborn!

From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

First of all the knight has assailed him with words: he stoutly calls him baseborn fellow, for he could not conceal the mind he had of him.

From Cliges; a romance by Laetitia Jane Gardiner




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