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past participle of bear; given birth to. examples
(obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses. quotations
In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.
1784, Thomas Sheridan, Life of Dr. Swift, Section I
If I had not persuaded Harriet into liking the man, I could have born any thing.
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, page 286
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Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited. quotations examples
I'll make it out, deny it he that can, / His Worship is a True-born Engliſhman, / In all the Latitude that Empty Word / By Modern Acceptation's understood.
1701 January (indicated as 1700), [Daniel Defoe], “Part II”, in The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], page 61
I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a born scoundrel.
1942, Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major
“Your desert boots are fitted slip-fashion at the ankles. Who told you to do that?”"It . . seemed the right way.""That it most certainly is."And Kynes rubbed his cheek, thinking of the legend: "He shall know your ways as though born to them."
1965, Frank Herbert, Dune (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, page 118
plural borns
(Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream) examples
third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt
(Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.) examples