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ˈslave-born, a. [slave n.1 9 a.] Born of a slave parent or parents; born in the condition of a slave.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii, The obstinate cowards, the slave-born tyrants. 1594Selimus (Temple ed.) 551 The mighty Emperor of Russia Sends in his troops of slave-born Muscovites. 1616Drummond of Hawthornden Poems D iv b, A sable Stage Where slaue-borne Man playes to the scoffing Starres. 1765Francis tr. Horace, Odes i. xxvii. 19 Thy breast no slave-born [earlier edd. slavish] Venus fires. |