truebred

English

Adjective

truebred (comparative more truebred, superlative most truebred)

1. Alternative form of true-bred
   1. Purebred.
      • 1895, Ontario. Legislative Assembly, Sessional Papers - Legislature of the Province of Ontario:

        A truebred nag, whenever walking or trotting, or if ever spoken to, should carry its tail right out.

      • 1949, Glenn G. Black, American Beagling, page 250:

        While Mendel was able to start his experiments with truebred tall and truebred dwarf peas, neither of which had any trace of the other in its past breeding history, his results were naturally more uniform and positive than can possibly be attained with Beagles, large and small...

      • 1981, Fran Grace, Branigan's Dog: A Novel, page 18:

        Branigan on his mount, a truebred quarter-horse out of the legendary Rocking Bar Ranch, rode point.

   2. Genuine
      • 1941, Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs:

        These two authors were truebred soldiers and heroes, who distinguished themselves in the most famous battles of this war, one in the battle of Port Arthur and the other in the battle of the Japan Sea, and were at the same time men of

      • 2013, Masashi Haneda, Islamic Urban Studies, →ISBN, page 263:

        In addition, the relationship of merchants with bureaucrats and the ulama needs to be explained, as does the connection between urban notables and the merchant class, since it is virtually impossible to find a truebred merchant mentioned in historical sources of the pre-modern age.

      • 2015, Peter James Stanlis, Edmund Burke and the Natural Law, →ISBN, page 27:

        These facts become highly important when it is recalled that the first and most important writers to evaluate Burke's political philosophy, and to establish its most widely accepted meaning, were truebred utilitarians and positivists.

   3. Of proper lineage.
      • 1950, The New Yorker - Volume 26, page 65:

        "He was not 'illegal,' as you ignorantly put it, Sireno. He was a truebred Church, but a wild young wastrel."

      • 1958, Joyce Dunsheath, Mountains and memsahibs, page 152:

        A cairn was built. It started as a hybrid Sherpa-Ladakhi one, but this fell down. The final truebred Sherpa one seemed firm enough.

      • 1977, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, volumes 77-79:

        Richard Brathwait,18 (born at Burneside Hall in 1588, died at East Appleton in 1673) much admired Tyrer and mentions him with praise in his poem To all truebred Northerne Sparks, of the generous society of the Cottoneers, who hold their High-roade by the Pinder of Wakefield, the Shoo-maker of Brandford, and the White Coate of Kendall;