ADJECTIVE
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of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
baseborn wretches with dirty faces
of humble (or lowly) birth - illegitimate
How To Use baseborn In A Sentence
- He was planning to legitimise his eldest baseborn son and name him heir. TREASON KEEP
- Wulfgar must have rewarded her handsomely for her favor, for of a surety that baseborn knight had no social graces. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
- If it were so, the Countess would be no Countess, Anna Lovel would simply be Anna Murray, penniless, baseborn, and a fit wife for the tailor, should the tailor think fit to take her. Lady Anna
- Until by the time they are forty, they have raging gout and big bellies and false teeth and baseborn mistresses spread halfway across England. Hero Come Back
- All these years, it was believed that Sienna, our houseguest was but a baseborn mutt, a dog of undistinguished and humble origins. Background revealed
- His Highness appears to be having some difficulty coping with your baseborn status," she translated. TREASON KEEP
- Much to my regret, both the Confucians and the Mohists have neglected to record the exploits of the baseborn knights.
- He says that perhaps the Piebald Prince got his Wit as much from his royal mother as his baseborn father. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
- Amelia Steven's entry noted she was baseborn as her mother's husband had been transported.
- 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.