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Low-born. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Low-born a. [f. LOW adv. + BORN ppl. a.]

1   1.  Born in a low station.

2 c. 1205.  Lay., 22041. Ne beo he noht swa loh iboren, ful wel he beoð iborȝen.

3 1611.  Shaks., Wint. T., IV. iv. 156. This is the prettiest Low-borne Lasse, that euer Ran on the greenesord.

4 [1732.  Pope, Ep. Bathurst, 138. Corruption … Shall deluge all; and Av’rice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the Sun.]

5 1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., x. II. 657. The fact that the low born young barrister was appointed to so honorable and important a post.

6   2.  As sb. A low-born person. nonce-use.

7 1879.  E. Arnold, Lt. Asia, VII. 202. Wrapped in a clout, shorn, sandalled, craving food Of low-borns.

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