Adjective
bastard, illegitimate
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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.
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And while the baſe borne Tartars take it vp, You fighting more for honor than for gold: Shall maſſacre those greedie minded ſlaues.
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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.
Adjective
of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
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baseborn wretches with dirty faces
of humble (or lowly) birth
illegitimate
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