Definition of "borne"

Miranda: I ſhould ſinne / To thinke but Noblie of my Grand-mother, / Good wombes haue borne bad ſonnes.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii]

“Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you. […] ”

1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 21, in The Dust of Conflict‎

In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.

1901, Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence

When, bright with purple and with gold, Come priest and holy cardinal, And borne above the heads of all The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.

1881, Oscar Wilde, “Rome Unvisited”, in Poems, page 44

Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.

c. 2000, David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, section II