ADJECTIVE
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of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
baseborn wretches with dirty faces
of humble (or lowly) birth - illegitimate
How To Use baseborn In A Sentence
- So we decided to have another look at baseborn George and hence the DNA comparison with a member of the Wiltshire family.
- Wulfgar must have rewarded her handsomely for her favor, for of a surety that baseborn knight had no social graces. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
- For they honor money; and the noble weds the baseborn, and the base the highborn; wealth has mixed the race.
- And as he talked with them, that baseborn man, whose name was The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
- If they believe in anything at all, it is this: They view us as a reeking collection of wretched, baseborn rabble, who are, on an individual level, a few billion neurons short of being governable by honest means. Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democratic Party and the Infantile Omnipotence of The Ruling Class
- “She has agreed to meet the Caesar in the field, and he will not hesitate, like a baseborn miscreant, to take every advantage in the encounter, which, I grieve to say, may in all likelihood be fatal to my mistress.” Count Robert of Paris
- In the 1851 Census, Susan Pearman is living with her parents and one sister, Christiana, and her baseborn daughter Ellen.
- I am the King's true daughter and an anointed queen; you are his baseborn son. Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
- baseborn wretches with dirty faces
- In the baptism records at Brighton, Sussex, for September 1767 he was quoted as ‘John Cheesman, baseborn son of Barbara Children’.