misborn
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English misboren, corresponding to mis- + born.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
misborn (comparative more misborn, superlative most misborn)
- (now rare) Born prematurely; abortive.
- (derogatory, now rare) Of low birth, illegitimate.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And drawing nigh him said, Ah misborne Elfe, / In euill houre thy foes thee hither sent […]