单词 | baseborn |
释义 | basebornadjective base·born ˈbās-ˈbȯrn 1 a dated : of humble birth Social expectations collide with wartime reality in a tender, well-written story that brings a loyal, baseborn officer and a gently bred heroine together in a satisfying romance … b dated : born to parents who are not married to each other The court's records of "baseborn" babies … today can provide genealogists and historians proof of paternity of an ancestor born outside of marriage. Sam Huse was granted his request to the court for 1,500 pounds of tobacco for raising the baseborn child of his servant, Sarah Harris, who refused to name the father. 2 dated : deficient in character or status : ignoble The scenes captured by Malak Karsh would help transform the city's image from a baseborn lumber town to a flowering capital, and establish Ottawa as a premier Canadian tourist destination. Their false pride died and they [a group of hyenas] knew themselves for the baseborn scavengers they are, and panic hit them all at once like a sandstorm in the desert, and they fled shrieking. baseborn adjective1 as in lowborn belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank in the Middle Ages, a baseborn person simply had to accept his or her station in life Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance
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2 as in illegitimate born to a father and mother who are not married a baseborn child who rose to prominence in 19th-century London society Synonyms & Similar Words
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