Baseborn
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Baseborn is an adjective meaning bastard, illegitimate.
Meaning
bastard, illegitimate.
More Meanings
- Of lowly birth.
Example Sentences
And while the baſe borne Tartars take it vp, You fighting more for honor than for gold: Shall maſſacre those greedie minded ſlaues.
Non-Arabs, of whatever racial origin, were of course baseborn, but so too were many Arabs who, for one reason or another, were not full and free members of a tribe.
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."
Word Forms
- base-born
Synonyms for baseborn
Depending on context, synonyms include base, humble, lowly, illegitimate, lowborn.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lowborn, lowly, illegitimate, humble, base, bastardly.
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