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Baseborn

Baseborn \Base"born`\, a.

  1. Born out of wedlock.
    --Gay.

  2. Born of low parentage.

  3. Vile; mean. ``Thy baseborn heart.''
    --Shak.

Wiktionary
baseborn

a. 1 bastard, illegitimate 2 Of lowly birth.

WordNet
baseborn
  1. adj. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth" [syn: base, humble, lowly]

  2. illegitimate [syn: base]

Usage examples of "baseborn".

Only Robb and his baseborn half-brother Jon Snow had been old enough to be worth his notice.

Nonetheless, if we put it about that her daughter is baseborn and Stannis a cuckold, well.

Claredon would give him the chance to start anew, to prove he deserved the overlordship of such a vast demesne on his own merits, despite his baseborn origins and the scandals that had surrounded him his life long.

Gilbert had never appeared to resent the limitations of his baseborn status.

Sometimes, when Aggie towered over his audience or whomever he was addressing, it was hard to remember that he was baseborn and grew up much like Riley had, in the back of a theatre.

Many people who might overlook his degradation of upstart princes would draw the line at baseborn foreign soldiers.

He was faced with the sort of intolerable royal decision that baseborn like me can hardly imagine.

But he would not go like a baseborn coward, cringing and pleading for mercy.

He says that perhaps the Piebald Prince got his Wit as much from his royal mother as his baseborn father.

First of all the knight has assailed him with words: he stoutly calls him baseborn fellow, for he could not conceal the mind he had of him.

Satan for sure, and doth follow a calling that none but a mean, snivelling, baseborn son of a gun would take to.

You have obviously chosen to ignore my dull-witted advice and go riding off to God only knows where in order to find some baseborn ruffian who cannot pen a literate sentence.

A philosopher, a lover, not some baseborn ruffian who skewered men with a knife.

Today there was no land left to grant, and more and more baseborn men were joining the Watch, and protector generals now gained income by other, less noble means.

I repent, baseborn mortal, who in the realm of Morgoth has learnt to creep in secret as his spies and thralls.