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y- +‎ bore

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ybore

  1. (obsolete) past participle of bear: bore, born.
    • 1563 (edition printed in 1844), John Foxe, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, page 301:
      The second sicknesse, that is commune to all mankind, commith of feeblenes of the body, as hunger and thorst, colde and heate, sorrowe and werines, and many other, as lob saith : 'A man that is ybore of a woman, [] '
    • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxxix:
      Orcano rose, of princely stem ybore, / Whose presence 'mongst them bore a mighty stroke.

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