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baseborn
[ beys-bawrn ]
/ ˈbeɪsˈbɔrn /
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baseball cap, baseballer, baseball glove, baseband, baseboard, baseborn, base box, base bullion, baseburner, base camp, basecoat
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How to use baseborn in a sentence
For they honor money; and the noble weds the baseborn, and the base the highborn; wealth has mixed the race.
Greek Women|Mitchell CarrollBaseborn—guilty-born—attainted by my father's crimes, I am unworthy your love or a place in your thoughts.
Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2)|Jonathon Holt IngrahamHer bloodstained practising had succeeded in foisting one baseborn plebeian of alien blood into the family.
A Decade of Italian Women, v. II (of 2)|T. Adolphus Trollope
British Dictionary definitions for baseborn
baseborn
/ (ˈbeɪsˌbɔːn) /
adjective archaic
born of humble parents
illegitimate
mean; contemptible
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