trueborn

comparative more trueborn · superlative most trueborn · alternative true-born

1. Genuinely by birth; legitimate.

   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.

   1996, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, Bantam Books, →ISBN

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   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.

   1994, Diana Gabaldon, Voyager, Anchor Canada, published 2002, →ISBN

   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.

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

plural trueborns · alternative true-born

1. fantasyA person of legitimate birth.