"baseling" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English baseling (attested only in the sense of debased coinage), equivalent to base + -ling.",
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          "ref": "1873, Homer, The First Six Books of the Iliad of Homer, page 31:",
          "text": "O weaklings, baselings we, — Achaian women, and not men!",
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          "text": "Why lift aloft the baseling? give the sword\nTo unanointed hands? garland the brow\nWhich virtue never crowned? […]",
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          "text": "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, […]",
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        "One who is base or inferior"
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        "(rare) One who is base or inferior"
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          "word": "lowling"
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