Meanings
adjectiveforest-born (not comparable)
- datednot comparableobsoleterareHaving been born in a forest.
The walls are still standing, which once resounded with the accents of the forest-born Demosthenes.
1837, various authors, Southern Literary Messenger, page 2381 more example
...to guide and direct the united energies of the colonists, made one people, by common sufferings, and common dangers; forest-born orators to rouse in the most lethargic and unconquerable spirit of resistance to Tyranny.
1841, Henry Stuart Foote, Texas and the Texans, page 120
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