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baseborn

[ beys-bawrn ]
/ ˈbeɪsˈbɔrn /
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adjective

of humble parentage.
born out of wedlock; illegitimate.
having a base character or nature; mean.

RELATED WORDS

base, common, contemptible, dishonorable, humble, ignoble, inferior, lower-class, mean, plebeian, unwashed, unworthy, bastard, misbegotten, spurious

Nearby words

  1. baseball finger,
  2. baseball glove,
  3. baseballer,
  4. baseband,
  5. baseboard,
  6. baseburner,
  7. basecoat,
  8. based,
  9. basedow's disease,
  10. basehearted

Origin of baseborn

First recorded in 1585–95; base2 + born
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Examples from the Web for baseborn

  • For they honor money; and the noble weds the baseborn, and the base the highborn; wealth has mixed the race.

    Greek Women|Mitchell Carroll

  • Baseborn—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 Ingraham

  • Her 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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