Meaning of baseborn | Babel Free

Definitions

1. bastard, illegitimate
   not-comparable
2. Of lowly birth.
   not-comparable

Examples

“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."”

“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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