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ˈfree-born, a.
[f. free a. + born ppl. a.; cf. Ger. freigeboren.]
1. Born free, born to the conditions and privileges of citizenship, inheriting liberty.
c1340Cursor M. 9497 (Trin.) Fre born to be & not bonde. c1410Sir Cleges 399, I am your man fre born. 1612Rowlands More Knaues Yet? (1613) 3 My freeborne Muse is no such seruile baby. a1720Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1753) I. 299 That free-born spirits should obey Wretches, who know not to sway! 1794Bloomfield Amer. Law Rep. 14 The Court to adjudge that the said Negro Peter was free-born. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. iii. 178 To me a free-born Cretan did that journey bring Imprisonment.
2. Pertaining to or befitting a free-born man.
c1510Robin Hood 2 in Arb. Garner VI. 423 Lithe and listen, Gentlemen, That be of freborn blood. 16051st Pt. Jeronimo in Dodsley O. Pl. (1780) III. 98 A base blush upon our free-born cheeks! 1621R. Brathwait Nat. Emb. Ded. (1641) A ij, Professed fauorer and furtherer of all freeborne studies. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. lii. 275 They insensibly lost the freeborn and martial virtues of the desert. 1813Scott Rokeby i. xvii, The wily priests..damned each free⁓born deed and thought. |