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True-born

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True´-born`
a.1.Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born Englishman.


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Why Daniel, who prided himself on being a true-born Englishman, Frenchified his name by adding a "De" to it we do not know, and he was over forty before he changed plain Foe into Defoe.
``But for my purpose,'' said the yeoman, ``thou shouldst be as well a good Englishman as a good knight; for that, which I have to speak of, concerns, indeed, the duty of every honest man, but is more especially that of a true-born native of England.
Think twice before you give up old Castle William, the key of the province, into other keeping than that of true-born New Englanders.
 
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