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wellborn
[ wel-bawrn ]
adjective
- born of a noble or highly esteemed family.
noun
, (used with a plural verb)
- wellborn persons collectively:
the pride and assurance of the wellborn.
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Wellborn, comfortably trained, healthy and easy-natured, the world had always turned its pleasant side to him.
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No one could better express than he did, when playing Wellborn, both pride of birth and pride of character.
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Not so, my boy; there is no disgrace in being less wellborn—it is only that one possesses a few privileges the less.
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This varlet, Wellborn, lives too long, to upbraid me With my close cheat put upon him.
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And yet your good solicitorship, and rogue Wellborn, Were brought into her presence, feasted with her.
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