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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

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

From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

The house of Lester may not have a baseborn lord!

From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham

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




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