baseling
nounEtymology From Middle English baseling (attested only in the sense of debased coinage), equivalent to base + -ling.
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Rare One who is base or inferior
- O weaklings, baselings we, — Achaian women, and not men!1873, Homer, The First Six Books of the Iliad of Homer, page 31:
- Why lift aloft the baseling? give the sword To unanointed hands? garland the brow Which virtue never crowned? […]1882, Frederick Randolph Abbe, The Temple Rebuilt, page 179:
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- Or again, the world's simpletons, the world's nonentities, the world's weaklings and baselings (i.e., elements deemed such by the world) the chosen things, the very elements of God's selection for the kingdom, […]2015, Joseph S. Exell, Biblical Illustrator, volume 5: