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Illegitimacy
(redirected from illegitimate child)

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illegitimacy: see bastard bastard, person born out of wedlock whose legal status is illegitimacy. In civil law countries and in about half the states of the United States, the union of the parents in marriage after birth makes the child legitimate.
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Illegitimacy
bend sinister
supposed stigma of illegitimate birth. [Heraldry: Misc.]
Clinker, Humphry
servant of Bramble family turns out to be illegitimate son of Mr. Bramble. [Br. Lit.: Humphry Clinker, Payton, 324]
Edmund
illegitimate son of Earl of Gloucester; conspires against father. [Br. Hist.: King Lear]
Jones, Tom
revealed to be Squire Allworthy’s sister Bridget’s illegitimate son. [Br. Lit.: Fielding Tom Jones]
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Neither of those campaigns were factual, any more than the push polls in the 2000 South Carolina primaries that accused John McCain of fathering an illegitimate child and betraying his comrades in arms in Vietnam.
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Hildebrand could have easily commented on The Book of Mary, "Notwithstanding that author Gail Sobat has turned our precious Lord into an illegitimate child, the basic error of this innovator is to imagine a feminist Mary brings her nearer to feminists, that shorn of her status as the venerated and honoured Mother of God, this substance enters into the lives of bitter lesbian, liberal, single-mother feminists.
The Book of Mary: A Novel by Volk, Stephen / Catholic Insight
Barker lays out the essentials of Wordsworth's career: the preeminent childhood in nature, the indifferent undergraduate degree, the heady stay in revolutionary France, and Wordsworth's relationship with Annette Vallon, leading to the birth of their illegitimate child, Caroline.
Odd fellow by Wheeler, Edward T. / Commonweal
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