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See also: Borne and borné

English

Etymology

From Middle English boren, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, past participle of Old English beran (“to carry, bear”).

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borne

  1. past participle of bear
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
      Miranda: I ſhould ſinne / To thinke but Noblie of my Grand-mother, / Good wombes haue borne bad ſonnes.
    • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 21, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
      “Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you. […] ”

Adjective

borne (not comparable)

  1. carried, supported.
    • 1901, Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence:
      In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.
    • 1881, Oscar Wilde, “[Rosa Mystica.] Rome Unvisited.”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, canto III, page 46:
      When, bright with purple and with gold,
      Come priest and holy Cardinal,
      And borne above the heads of all
      The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.
    • c. 2000, David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, section II:
      Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.

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