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baseborn

adjective as in illegitimate

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Example Sentences

While it's not yet fully known how Daemon will use Helaena's guidance, the convergence of these three characters adds additional weight to the idea that the baseborn healer and the neglected queen, two women separated by status and distance, have a hand behind much that will transpire from now until the dragons stop dancing.

From Salon

Aristocratic sympathizers grafted on protests at the elevation of the baseborn—namely Cromwell—to high offices.

From Slate

But all the same, it offers a rare opportunity for the Sussexes to slum it, and connect with the baseborn rabble from the comfort of a modest, 40,000 sq ft pied-à-terre.

Fran Fine, with her Skittles-colored couture, unruly bouffant, and honking voice, is supposed to read as baseborn.

Some young squire or hedge knight, like as not . . . though by the vehemence with which Lord Hoster had opposed him, he might have been a tradesman's son qr baseborn apprentice, even a singer.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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