hochwohlgeboren

hochwohlgeboren

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German hochwohlgeboren

Adjective

hochwohlgeboren (comparative more hochwohlgeboren, superlative most hochwohlgeboren)

1. High-born; aristocratic, of noble birth.
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 484:

     But here we all were, being hochwohlgeboren in the passage.