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base-born

base-born is the alternative spelling of baseborn.

Meaning of baseborn

Adjective

baseborn (not comparable)

  1. bastard, illegitimate
    • 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."1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  2. Of lowly birth.
    • And while the baſe borne Tartars take it vp,
      You fighting more for honor than for gold:
      Shall maſſacre those greedie minded ſlaues.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

Questions about base-born

What is base-born the alternative spelling of?
Base-born is the alternative spelling of baseborn.

Words near base-born in the dictionary

  1. base yards
  2. base year
  3. base years
  4. base-2
  5. base-ball
  6. base-born
  7. base-burner
  8. base-burners
  9. base-on-balls
  10. base-pair breathing
  11. baseball

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