true-born

See also: trueborn

English

Adjective

true-born (comparative more true-born, superlative most true-born)

1. Alternative form of trueborn
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Where'er I wander, boast of this I can,
     Though banish'd, yet a true-born Englishman.

   • 1946, Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell, Oxford University Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 464:

     The following century saw, in Gaul, the earliest examples of an inverse move, on the part of true-born Romans, to assume German names, and before the end of the eighth century the practice had become universal.

   • 1998, Christopher Hibbert, George III: A Personal History, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 77:

     As well as being set upon ending faction in politics, the King was also determined to demonstrate to his people that, while his immediate predecessors had cared more for Hanover than for the great country over which they had come to rule, he was, for all his German blood, a true-born Englishman […]