outborn
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Arising from or motivated by external sources, as opposed to being instinctual or intrinsically rewarding
Example Sentences
- "But before a man was created upon the earth, or ever a wild beast had roamed over its surface, the vegetable kindom was the highest form of spiritual life, for, as has been shown, they have no life of their own; but were then the outborn expressions of human principles in some pre-existing world;"
- "As all the vital germs constituent to the essential organism are endosmosed through the outer and inner and intermediate layers of the prime or "germinal membrane" of the vascular organism, the pores of which remain intact as the only ports of inbirth during their common development on our plane of sense-perception, they can and do become exosmosed, or outborn, by a reversion of their condition; that is, by having become expanded on the mature plane in the degree they were primarily condensed on the embryonic plane."
- "Human nature is disclosed through the outborn spatial structure of the body."
- "It has its sublimity, that emotion, and its reason, though we cannot share it; and it is only in asking ourselves why a man of any nation, any race, should so glory in its greatness or even its goodness, when he has the greatness, the goodness of all humanity to glory in, that we are sensible of the limitations of this outborn Englishman."
- "The figure for Kanpur was 52.7 while the percentage of outborn in Agra, Varanasi, Allahabad and Lucknow was 25, 21.3, 25.8 and 42 respectively. The percentage of outborn in the city has increased from 38. to 52.7 within the period of 50 years (1901-1951)."
- "The interval including the war period indicated a sudden rise in the demand for both lower and higher educated outborn husbands many of whom worked with the Allied Forces."
Etymology
From out- + born.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: out