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What does highborn mean?

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Adjective
  1. (archaic) Of high social standing as a result of having been born a member of an upper-level social class.
  2. (archaic) Born a member of an upper-level social class (although not necessarily retaining high social standing)
  3. Of, pertaining to, or befitting people of high social standing.
  4. (figuratively) Of superior or premium quality; magnificent; expensive.
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It demonstrated that tragedy need not be limited to the highborn, as Gottsched had maintained in his interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics.
It was not for very many years that Lafayette was to profit by his highborn mother's devoted care and foresight.
Therefore he brought the highborn maiden to the pass that she gave over her unruly will, which she asserted there afore.
It was a fashionable philosophy, appealing to learned gentlemen and highborn ladies alike, and it was one of the few philosophical alternatives to the Scholasticism still being taught in the universities.
The highborn captive was sitting against the far wall, drifting, eyes watching the beyond.
Studies finished, his heart firm in his lofty purpose, highborn schemes began their struggling claim for his attention.

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