The status of being born to parents who were not married.
A mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left.
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Examples for "illegitimacy"
Examples for "illegitimacy"
1There's enough misunderstanding in my life already without a case of illegitimacy.
2No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant from the king to the people.
3In many cases a baton is inserted as a mark of illegitimacy.-Ed.
4The young boy hated having his illegitimacy jeered at by his schoolmates.
5The illegitimacy of his regime, and the legitimacy of the uprising, is clear.
1There had been great disputes between the civil and ecclesiastical courts concerning bastardy.
2As men often are when they have the taint of bastardy.'
3But Maria's guests had bastardy in their souls... perjury... adultery-theDevil.
4Lord Chatterino: Birth; sixteen descents pure; one bastardy-fourdescents pure-asuspicion-one descent pure-a certainty.
5The seal of bastardy set upon the baby brow of
1Not a man of them left a bar sinister on th' scutcheon!
2At the same moment, verbally, he cast the bar sinister on my genealogy.
3Also, she thought she was all-white, and never dreamed of a bar sinister.
4The history of France swarms with princes bearing the bar sinister on their shields.
5Had she been merely of illegitimate birth, he would have overlooked the bar sinister.
6It is the bar sinister, the badge of dishonor.
7If they choose to consider that Boston bringing-up a social bar sinister, so be it.
8He is a Delmar, although with the bar sinister.
9That there was a bar sinister did not matter.
10Some secret, perhaps, of shame and disgrace-somebar sinister in their shield; and, good heavens!
11The law of man disavows me-thebar sinister.
12No bar sinister could tell a stronger tale.
13Even this does not exhaust her family history; there is something like a bar sinister in her escutcheon.
14The forgotten deeds of desperate valor-alluseless now, and stained forever with the bar sinister of his treason.
15He himself was in the habit of jocularly alluding to this disfigurement as his " bar sinister."
16The Bastard of Burgundy, wearing the Burgundian coat-of-arms with a bar sinister, made a fine record for himself.
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