a. Born of a true or pure stock; legitimately born; having the sterling qualities associated with such descent.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., II. iv. 27. Let him that is a true-borne Gentleman … From off this Bryer pluck a white Rose with me. Ibid. (1593), Rich. II., I. iii. 309. Though banish’d, yet a true-borne Englishman.
1645. Fuller, Gd. Th. in Bad T. (1841), 54. He will acknowledge us to be no bastards, but his trueborn children.
1701. De Foe (title), The True-Born Englishman.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., II. lxxxiii. If Greece one true-born patriot still can boast.
