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