Definition of Trueborn

1. a. Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born Englishman.

Definition of Trueborn

1. genuinely such by birth [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trueborn

true thirst
true to(p)
true to life
true to life(p)
true to one's colors
true toad
true tulipwood
true up
true vampire bat
true vertebra
true vocal cord
true vocal fold
true warbler
trueblue
trueblues
trueborn (current term)
truebred
trued
truehearted
trueheartedness
trueing
truel
truelove
truelove knot
trueloves
truely
trueman
truemen
trueness
truenesses

Literary usage of Trueborn

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ethica; Or, Characteristics of Men, Manners & Books by Arthur Lloyd Windsor (1860)
"The trueborn Englishman.—DC Foe and Anne.—True Character of Anne.—DC Foe's Political Activity.—The question of Peace, and Curious Plight of Swift. ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... which cannot but affect us : — 1 This must he feel, the trueborn son of Greece, If Greece one trueborn patriot yet can boast; Not such as prate of war, ..."

3. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1868)
"This must he feel, the trueborn son of Greece, If Greece one trueborn patriot yet can boast; Not such as prate of war, but skulk in peace, The bondsman's ..."

4. The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the by William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers, George Steevens, Henry Fuseli (1811)
"Cousin Aumerle, How far brought you high Hereford on his way ? 4 —— measure,] A measure was a formal court dance. *n yet a trueborn Englishman. ..."

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