Bastardy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The condition of being born of unwed parents; illegitimacy.
  • n. The begetting of a bastard.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The condition of being illegitimate, of being born to an unmarried woman or as the fruit of adultery.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.
  • n. The procreation of a bastard child.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of being a bastard, or begotten and born out of lawful wedlock.
  • n. The act of begetting a bastard.
  • n. A judicial proceeding to determine the paternity of a bastard child and compel its father to support it.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the status of being born to parents who were not married
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