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wellborn

[ wel-bawrn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, (used with a plural verb)

First recorded before 950; Middle English; Old English welboren; well ¹, born

Wellborn, comfortably trained, healthy and easy-natured, the world had always turned its pleasant side to him.

No one could better express than he did, when playing Wellborn, both pride of birth and pride of character.

Not so, my boy; there is no disgrace in being less wellborn—it is only that one possesses a few privileges the less.

This varlet, Wellborn, lives too long, to upbraid me With my close cheat put upon him.

And yet your good solicitorship, and rogue Wellborn, Were brought into her presence, feasted with her.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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