baseborn

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8

Definition of baseborn

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)bastard, illegitimate
    “He said, "Though the law did not positively allow the destroying such base-born children, yet it held them to be the children of nobody; that the Church considered them as the children of nobody; and that at the best, they ought to be brought up to the lowest and vilest offices of the commonwealth."”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)bastard, illegitimate
    “He said, "Though the law did not positively allow the destroying such base-born children, yet it held them to be the children of nobody; that the Church considered them as the children of nobody; and that at the best, they ought to be brought up to the lowest and vilest offices of the commonwealth."”
  2. (not-comparable)Of lowly birth.
    “And while the baſe borne Tartars take it vp, You fighting more for honor than for gold: Shall maſſacre those greedie minded ſlaues.”
    “Non-Arabs, of whatever racial origin, were of course baseborn, but so too were many Arabs who, for one reason or another, were not full and free members of a tribe.”

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Etymology

From base + born.

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2-letter words

11 words

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