单词 | slave-born |
释义 | slave-bornadj. Born of a slave parent or parents; born in the condition of a slave. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [adjective] > enslaved or in bondage > born into slavery native?c1425 slave-borna1586 vernaculous1656 vernacular1804 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xii. sig. Pp2v The obstinate cowards, the slaue-borne tyrants. 1594 Selimus (Temple ed.) 551 The mighty Emperor of Russia Sends in his troops of slave-born Muscovites. ?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: If crost with all mishaps in Poems A mournefull Stage Where slaue-borne Man playes to the laughing Starres. 1765 P. Francis tr. Horace Odes i. xxvii. 19 Thy breast no slave-born [earlier edd. slavish] Venus fires. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.a1586 |
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