yborn

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English

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Etymology

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y- +‎ born

Verb

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yborn

  1. (obsolete) past participle of bear
    • a. 1536, A Little Child There is Yborn, a carol quoted in 1915, Edith Rickert, Ancient English Christmas Carols, 1400-1700, page 42:
      A Little Child There is Yborn Before 1536.
      Gloria Tibi, Domine, / Qui natus es de virgine! / A little child there is yborn, / Out of Jesse's stock ycorn [chosen], / To save all us that were forlorn.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. [], part II (books IV–VI), London: [] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 128:
      Yet did this Truſtie ſquire with proud diſdaine / For his friends ſake her offred fauours ſcorne, / And ſhe her ſelfe her ſyre, of whom ſhe was yborne.

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Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old English ġeboren.

Verb

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yborn

  1. past participle of bear