Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not of good or honorable birth; of low or common lineage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Of mean extraction.

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  • adjective archaic Of mean extraction; low-born.

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birth +‎ -less

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