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  • s  of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
    baseborn wretches with dirty faces
  • s  illegitimate

  • He scorned the feeble, ignorant, baseborn, wellborn, and those who loved him.
  • When the haughty Duchess of Cleveland, another of the King's mistresses, put on airs with her baseborn rival, Nell gave her a friendly whop on the shoulder, and remarked .

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