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of gentle birth, in contrast with servile birth
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  • Ǽgðer ge æþelboren ge þeówetling,

      Hml. Th. i. 92, 1.
  • Ne sceal hé þone æþelborenan settan beforan þane þeówborenan

    non preponatur ingenuus ex servitio convertenti,

      R. Ben. 12, 12.
in a general sense,
noble
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  • Æthelboren

    nobilis,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 85, 60.
  • Eðelboren,

      Kent. Gl. 1147.
  • Gif hwylc ríce mon and æþelboren

    si quis de nobilibus,

      R. Ben. 103, 10.
  • Eádgár ... cincg æðelboren (

    egregius

    ),
      Angl. xiii. 365, 5.
  • Ealdorman æfter worulde swíðe æþelboren,

      Hml. S. 30, 3.
  • For worulde æðelboren,

      Hml. Th. ii. 118, 10.
  • Swýðe æþelboren on weorulde and ríce. Chr. 654; P. 29, 15.
  • Of æðelborenre mǽgðe,

      Hml. Th. ii. 118, 6: 174, 6: Hml. S. 8, 41.
  • Æþelborene weras þe wǽron éstlíce áfédde,

      31, 335.
  • Næs heó swá nú æðelborene men synt mid oferméttum áfylled,

      Lch. iii. 428, 31.
  • Gif æðelborenran wífmen þis gelimpe, Ll. Th. i. 70, 1. ¶ definite form as noun :-- Tó gewríþenne æþelborenan (

    nobiles

    ) heora,
      Ps. L. 149, 8.
inborn, natural. Cf. æþelu,
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  • Æþelborene

    ingenitam (probably a gloss on Ald. 66, 9: Venustatem ... genuina consparsione ingenitam ),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 47, 45.
Etymology
[O. Sax. aðal-boran.]
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v. un-æþelboren, and next word.
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v.  boren.
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