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wellborn

[ wel-bawrn ]

adjective

  1. born of a noble or highly esteemed family.


noun

(used with a plural verb)
  1. wellborn persons collectively:

    the pride and assurance of the wellborn.

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of wellborn1

First recorded before 950; Middle English; Old English welboren; well 1, born
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According to psychologists at the time, it was household workers who tended to introduce perversion into respectable homes, corrupting wellborn individuals like Ann.

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An aristocracy was unavoidable; the United States would be ruled by the rich, the wellborn and the able.

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Elizabeth Tilton, a wellborn and influential suffragist and Prohibitionist, was particularly concerned about the price that alcoholism exacted from poor immigrants, who “thought little but acted rashly.â€

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Millions loved watching the nerdy Herb Stempel and the wellborn Charles Van Doren sweat in the “isolation booth.â€

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Virginia Hall, a wellborn, multilingual Marylander who became known to the Nazis as the Limping Lady because of her artificial leg, helped French Resistance fighters wage guerrilla warfare against the occupying Germans.

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