baseborn

Example Sentences

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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 Sayer, Elizabeth Price

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

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John

One might be a noble and still not belong to the knightly order, and, on the other hand, one baseborn might be raised to knighthood on account of some valorous deed.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey