Meanings
plural baselings
- rareOne who is base or inferior
O weaklings, baselings we, — Achaian women, and not men!
1873, Homer, The First Six Books of the Iliad of Homer, page 312 more examples
Why lift aloft the baseling? give the sword To unanointed hands? garland the brow Which virtue never crowned? […]
1882, Frederick Randolph Abbe, The Temple Rebuilt, page 179Or again, the world's simpletons, the world's nonentities, the world's weaklings and baselings (i.e., elements deemed such by the world) the chosen things, the very elements of God's selection for the kingdom, […]
2015, Joseph S. Exell, Biblical Illustrator, volume 5Synonyms: lowling
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOne who is base or inferior
Origin
- Middle Englishbaseling
- Englishbaseling
From Middle English baseling (attested only in the sense of debased coinage), equivalent to base + -ling.
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