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True-born. World English Historical Dictionary

True-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. 1916, rev. 2022. True-born a. Born of a true or pure stock; legitimately born; having the sterling qualities associated with such descent.

1 1591.  Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., II. iv. 27. Let him that is a true-borne Gentleman … From off this Bryer pluck a white Rose with me. Ibid. (1593), Rich. II., I. iii. 309. Though banish’d, yet a true-borne Englishman.

2 1645.  Fuller, Gd. Th. in Bad T. (1841), 54. He will acknowledge us to be no bastards, but his trueborn children.

3 1701.  De Foe (title), The True-Born Englishman.

4 1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., II. lxxxiii. If Greece one true-born patriot still can boast.

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