baseborn

English edit

base +‎ born

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: […] [R. Robinson for] 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.