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free·born

 (frē′bôrn′)
adj.
1. Born as a free person, not as a slave or serf.
2. Relating to or befitting a person born free.
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freeborn

(ˈfriːˌbɔːn)
adj
1. not born in slavery
2. of, relating to, or suitable for people not born in slavery
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free•born

(ˈfriˌbɔrn)

adj.
1. born free, rather than in slavery.
2. pertaining to or befitting persons born free.
[1300–50]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.freeborn - born free of free parents
free - not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man"
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Moreover, it is necessary to instruct children in what is useful, not only on account of its being useful in itself, as, for instance, to learn to read, but also as the means of acquiring other different sorts of instruction: thus they should be instructed in painting, not only to prevent their being mistaken in purchasing pictures, or in buying or selling of vases, but rather as it makes [1338b] them judges of the beauties of the human form; for to be always hunting after the profitable ill agrees with great and freeborn souls.
His friend would have dissuaded him from this, from the mere motive of good-nature; but his dissuasion had no other effect than to produce a large volley of oaths and curses, which greatly shocked the pious ears of Supple; but he did not dare to remonstrate against a privilege which the squire claimed as a freeborn Englishman.
Of yore we had sauntered and talked, and effectually put the world behind us; for he was pledged to no institution in it, freeborn, ingenuus.
Napoleon remarked them, and speedily managed to rally them off: and yet Napoleon, in his turn, was not great enough with eight hundred thousand troops at his back, to face a pair of freeborn eyes, but fenced himself with etiquette and within triple barriers of reserve; and, as all the world knows from Madame de Stael, was wont, when he found himself observed, to discharge his face of all expression.
"My brother wanted to shout the cry of challenge--one cry only--to let the people know we were freeborn robbers who trusted our arms and the great sea.
Do we not know that the worst deformity and ugliness of slavery are at once the cause and the effect of the reckless license taken by these freeborn outlaws?
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