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English
Etymology
From base + born.
Adjective
baseborn (not comparable)
- bastard, illegitimate
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:He said, "Though the law did not positively allow the destroying such base-born children, yet it held them to be the children of nobody; that the Church considered them as the children of nobody; and that at the best, they ought to be brought up to the lowest and vilest offices of the commonwealth."
- Of lowly birth.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:And while the baſe borne Tartars take it vp,
You fighting more for honor than for gold:
Shall maſſacre those greedie minded ſlaues.
2001, Bernard Lewis, Islam in history: ideas, people, and events in the Middle East, page 248:Non-Arabs, of whatever racial origin, were of course baseborn, but so too were many Arabs who, for one reason or another, were not full and free members of a tribe.