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forest-born en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (dated, not-comparable, obsolete, rare) Having been born in a forest.
    • The walls are still standing, which once resounded with the accents of the forest-born Demosthenes. 1837, various authors, Southern Literary Messenger, page 238:
    • ...to guide and direct the united energies of the colonists, made one people, by common sufferings, and common dangers; forest-born orators to rouse in the most lethargic and unconquerable spirit of resistance to Tyranny. 1841, Henry Stuart Foote, Texas and the Texans, page 120: