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Definition of baseborn in English: basebornadjective ˈbeɪsbɔːnˈbeɪsbɔrn archaic 1Of low birth or origin. 〈古〉出身微贱的 Example sentencesExamples - For they honor money; and the noble weds the baseborn, and the base the highborn; wealth has mixed the race.
- I had thought this fellow at least an esquire; for I had hoped that even the vilest of my ladies would not have dishonored my Court by wantoning with a baseborn servant.
- So we decided to have another look at baseborn George and hence the DNA comparison with a member of the Wiltshire family.
- Much to my regret, both the Confucians and the Mohists have neglected to record the exploits of the baseborn knights.
Synonyms uncouth, vulgar, coarse, rough, unsavoury, boorish, rude, impolite, ill-mannered, unladylike, ungentlemanly, ill-bred, uncivilized, unsophisticated, unrefined, philistine, primitive, savage, brutish, oafish, gross - 1.1 Illegitimate.
私生的 Example sentencesExamples - In the baptism records at Brighton, Sussex, for September 1767 he was quoted as ‘John Cheesman, baseborn son of Barbara Children’.
- In the 1851 Census, Susan Pearman is living with her parents and one sister, Christiana, and her baseborn daughter Ellen.
- Amelia Steven's entry noted she was baseborn as her mother's husband had been transported.
Synonyms born out of wedlock, born of unmarried parents
Definition of baseborn in US English: basebornadjectiveˈbāsbôrnˈbeɪsbɔrn archaic 1attributive Of low birth or origin. 〈古〉出身微贱的 Example sentencesExamples - Much to my regret, both the Confucians and the Mohists have neglected to record the exploits of the baseborn knights.
- So we decided to have another look at baseborn George and hence the DNA comparison with a member of the Wiltshire family.
- For they honor money; and the noble weds the baseborn, and the base the highborn; wealth has mixed the race.
- I had thought this fellow at least an esquire; for I had hoped that even the vilest of my ladies would not have dishonored my Court by wantoning with a baseborn servant.
Synonyms uncouth, vulgar, coarse, rough, unsavoury, boorish, rude, impolite, ill-mannered, unladylike, ungentlemanly, ill-bred, uncivilized, unsophisticated, unrefined, philistine, primitive, savage, brutish, oafish, gross - 1.1 Illegitimate.
私生的 Example sentencesExamples - Amelia Steven's entry noted she was baseborn as her mother's husband had been transported.
- In the 1851 Census, Susan Pearman is living with her parents and one sister, Christiana, and her baseborn daughter Ellen.
- In the baptism records at Brighton, Sussex, for September 1767 he was quoted as ‘John Cheesman, baseborn son of Barbara Children’.
Synonyms born out of wedlock, born of unmarried parents
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