baseborn
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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
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 James Harvey Robinson
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
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
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