Illegitimacy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The quality or condition of being illegitimate.
  • n. Bastardy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The state or condition of being illegitimate
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state of being illegitimate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state or character of being illegitimate; specifically, bastardy; spuriousness: as, the illegitimacy of a child; the illegitimacy of an argument.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the status of being born to parents who were not married
  • n. unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law
  • Hypernym
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    position    status    unlawfulness   
    Synonym
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    bastardy   
    Rhyme
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    legitimacy   
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