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freeborn

[ US /ˈfɹibɝn/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈiːbɔːn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. born free of free parents

How To Use freeborn In A Sentence

  • “Hurr”; the Latin “ingenuus,” lit. freeborn; metaph. noble as opp. to a slave who is not expected to do great or good deeds. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Although she is freeborn, Alice forfeits her freedom by assisting her enslaved lover's thwarted escape.
  • After all, freeborn Englishmen, headed by Wat Tyler, had rebelled against a poll tax back in 1381, and the memory of it remained in popular legend.
  • Literary sources indicate the existence in fourth-century Sparta of a group known as ‘Inferiors’, and impoverished freeborn Spartiates may have been so categorized.
  • A long, simple, sleeved tunic bordered with a purple stripe was the standard uniform for both freeborn boys and girls in Rome, and a protective neck chain called a bulla in the case of boys and a moon-shaped lunula for girls the moon being the symbol of Diana, the Roman goddess of chastity their only adornment. Caesars’ Wives
  • The flashy intellectual brilliance of Fox is no match for the wisdom of ages, the common sense of the freeborn Englishman.
  • As freeborn colonial Englishmen, this amounted to tyranny and was not an acceptable obligation for them to have to endure. It’s Patriots’ Day
  • He had also freeborn cottars and slaves to farm his land.
  • DuBois wrote, ‘We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a freeborn American, political, civil and social.’
  • Until the last of my days, my proudest boast will ever be that I was the wife of Freeborn John Lilburne.
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