Meaning of baseling | Babel Free

Definitions

One who is base or inferior

rare

Examples

“O weaklings, baselings we, — Achaian women, and not men!”

“Why lift aloft the baseling? give the sword To unanointed hands? garland the brow Which virtue never crowned? […]”

“Or again, the world's simpletons, the world's nonentities, the world's weaklings and baselings (i.e., elements deemed such by the world) the chosen things, the very elements of God's selection for the kingdom, […]”

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