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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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Byline: Gail-Tzipporah Saunders Every party has its embarrassing moment - the long lost illegitimate child who shows up at a family gathering, points a finger at an man who appears to be the center of it all and says, "That's my real father.
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It tells the story of Kate Fawcett bringing up an illegitimate child in 1902.
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