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/ˌɪlɪdʒˈɪtəməsi/ Listen

Illegitimacy

noun

The status of being born to parents who were not married. Synonyms: bar sinister, bastardy.

Unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law.

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"Illegitimacy" Quotes from Famous Books

... greatest breeder of crime known to the intelligence of man, and it is an established fact that crime breeds immorality, and immorality of course is the equivalent of illegitimacy, and historical facts will bear me out in the assertion that the countries which are absolutely under the power of the Pope are countries which are densely ignorant, and again, as above stated, ignorance leads to crime, and ...

— Thirty Years In Hell - Or, From Darkness to Light • Bernard Fresenborg

... four years he had turned it over in his mind and had even taken the first steps to bring it about. It was the more difficult because the father of the Duc de Chartres was infinitely proud of his rank, and the mother belonged to a nation which abhorred illegitimacy and, misalliances, and was indeed of a character to forbid all hope of her ...

— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon

Words linked to "Illegitimacy" : status, unlawfulness, position, legitimacy