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Base-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. 1888, rev. 2024. Base-born a. [f. BASE a. 6, 7, 16.]

1   1.  Of low or humble birth, plebeian.

2 1593.  Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., IV. viii. 49. Better ten-thousand base-borne Cades miscarry.

3 1741.  Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. 95. That a gentleman of your rank in life should stoop … to the base-born Pamela.

4 1845.  Disraeli, Sybil (1863), 153. Very often the baseborn change their liveries for coronets.

5   2.  fig. Of base origin or nature.

6 1591.  Spenser, Teares Muses, 392. Such high conceipt of that celestiall fire, The base-borne brood of Blindnes cannot gesse.

7 1852.  Tupper, Prov. Philos., 179. A base-born mirth, springing out of carelessness and folly.

8   3.  Illegitimate, born out of wedlock.

9 1645.  Featley, Dippers Dipt, 51 (T.). Neither doth holy necessarily implie no bastard. For some holy men have been base-born.

10 1851.  Kingsley, Yeast, xi. 203. Our daughters with base-born babies Have wandered away in their shame.

11   B.  quasi-sb. One of humble or illegitimate birth.

12 1605.  Parish Reg. Romford, Essex, 11 Aug. George, the base-borne of one of my Ladye Coke’s servants.

13 1879.  E. Arnold, Lt. Asia, 195. Huts where the base-born dwelt.

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