freeborn
IPA: frˈibɝn
noun
- A surname from Old English.
adjective
- Born free rather than in bondage or as a slave
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Examples of "freeborn" in Sentences
- [FN#194] Or "freeborn," the Arabic word used here having this double meaning.
- [FN#193] Or "freeborn," the Arabic word used here having this double meaning.
- The requirement of being "freeborn" harkens back to the earliest days of Freemasonry.
- If there were naught else, it were enough that you have called a freeborn thane's daughter a thrall to your evil mistress.
- As freeborn colonial Englishmen, this amounted to tyranny and was not an acceptable obligation for them to have to endure.
- He plans to introduce measures that will see freeborn Englishmen having every last detail of their every movement in and out of the country handed over to the State.
- I need more caffeine, to offset my loss of an hour of sleep to my region's move to "daylight saving time," which as Bill Kauffman points out is "that puzzling ritual of mass clock-winding ill befitting freeborn Americans."
- A long, simple, sleeved tunic bordered with a purple stripe was the standard uniform for both freeborn boys and girls in Rome, and a protective neck chain called a bulla in the case of boys and a moon-shaped lunula for girls the moon being the symbol of Diana, the Roman goddess of chastity their only adornment.
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