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单词 baseborn
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Definition of baseborn in English:

baseborn

adjective ˈbeɪsbɔːnˈbeɪsbɔrn
archaic
  • 1Of low birth or origin.

    he was a baseborn prince
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For they honor money; and the noble weds the baseborn, and the base the highborn; wealth has mixed the race.
    • I had thought this fellow at least an esquire; for I had hoped that even the vilest of my ladies would not have dishonored my Court by wantoning with a baseborn servant.
    • So we decided to have another look at baseborn George and hence the DNA comparison with a member of the Wiltshire family.
    • Much to my regret, both the Confucians and the Mohists have neglected to record the exploits of the baseborn knights.
    Synonyms
    uncouth, vulgar, coarse, rough, unsavoury, boorish, rude, impolite, ill-mannered, unladylike, ungentlemanly, ill-bred, uncivilized, unsophisticated, unrefined, philistine, primitive, savage, brutish, oafish, gross
    1. 1.1 Illegitimate.
      his baseborn son
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the baptism records at Brighton, Sussex, for September 1767 he was quoted as ‘John Cheesman, baseborn son of Barbara Children’.
      • In the 1851 Census, Susan Pearman is living with her parents and one sister, Christiana, and her baseborn daughter Ellen.
      • Amelia Steven's entry noted she was baseborn as her mother's husband had been transported.
      Synonyms
      born out of wedlock, born of unmarried parents
 
 

Definition of baseborn in US English:

baseborn

adjectiveˈbāsbôrnˈbeɪsbɔrn
archaic
  • 1attributive Of low birth or origin.

    he was a baseborn prince
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Much to my regret, both the Confucians and the Mohists have neglected to record the exploits of the baseborn knights.
    • So we decided to have another look at baseborn George and hence the DNA comparison with a member of the Wiltshire family.
    • For they honor money; and the noble weds the baseborn, and the base the highborn; wealth has mixed the race.
    • I had thought this fellow at least an esquire; for I had hoped that even the vilest of my ladies would not have dishonored my Court by wantoning with a baseborn servant.
    Synonyms
    uncouth, vulgar, coarse, rough, unsavoury, boorish, rude, impolite, ill-mannered, unladylike, ungentlemanly, ill-bred, uncivilized, unsophisticated, unrefined, philistine, primitive, savage, brutish, oafish, gross
    1. 1.1 Illegitimate.
      his baseborn son
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Amelia Steven's entry noted she was baseborn as her mother's husband had been transported.
      • In the 1851 Census, Susan Pearman is living with her parents and one sister, Christiana, and her baseborn daughter Ellen.
      • In the baptism records at Brighton, Sussex, for September 1767 he was quoted as ‘John Cheesman, baseborn son of Barbara Children’.
      Synonyms
      born out of wedlock, born of unmarried parents
 
 
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