trueborn

trueborn

See also: true-born

English

Alternative forms

• true-born

Etymology

true +‎ born

Adjective

trueborn (comparative more trueborn, superlative most trueborn)

1. Genuinely by birth; legitimate.
   • 1994, Diana Gabaldon, Voyager, Anchor Canada (2002), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Young Ian's shoulders and thighs were dark with wet, and the rain dripped from the brim of his slouch hat, but he sat straight in the saddle, ignoring the weather with the stoic nonchalance of a trueborn Scot.

   • 1996, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, Bantam Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     She might have overlooked a dozen bastards for Ned's sake, so long as they were out of sight. Jon was never out of sight, and as he grew, he looked more like Ned than any of the trueborn sons she bore him.

   • 2007, Kieran Doherty, Sea Venture: Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of Jamestown, St. Martin's (2007), →ISBN, page 151:

     Draconian in terms of its scope and aims, it replaced the guarantee of all rights, liberties, and immunities of all trueborn Englishmen that had been granted to the colonists in the first two colonial charters and established something very akin to martial law in the colony.

Noun

trueborn (plural trueborns)

1. (fantasy) A person of legitimate birth.