adjective
definition
Born free rather than in bondage or as a slave
Examples of freeborn in a Sentence
To a Greek it suggested the assembly of freeborn citizens in a city state.
If phrased as a constitutional enormity denying the rights of freeborn English then the answer is also implied in the question.
In theory, the twelve plebeian centuries were open to all freeborn youths of the age of seventeen, although in practice preference was given to the members of the older families.
It has a public library and the Freeborn County Court House, and is the seat of Albert Lea College (Presbyterian, for women), founded in 1884, and of Luther Academy (Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran), founded in 1888.
They were, as Milton said, " faithful and freeborn Englishmen and good Christians constrained to forsake their dearest home, their friends, and kindred, whom nothing but the wide ocean and the savage deserts of America could hide and shelter from the fury of the bishops."
There are five noble families, possibly representing a former division of the people, after whom come the freeborn, and then the freedmen.
These were still under age and were not the children of a freeborn, noble mother.
A material point for the application of the privilege consists in the fact that ancient demesne has to be proved from the time before the Conquest, and this shows clearly that the theory was partly derived from the recognition of tenant right in villeins of the Anglo-Saxon period who, as we have said above, were mostly ceorls, that is, freeborn men.