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Meanings of illegitimacy in English

Russian
внебрачность
Portuguese
filiação ilegítima
Spanish
ilegitimidad
Catalan
il·legitimitat

Status of a child born outside of a legal marriage.

внебрачность
Usage of illegitimacy in English
1
There's enough misunderstanding in my life already without a case of illegitimacy.
The ginger man
2
No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant from the king to the people.
Les Misérables
3
In many cases a baton is inserted as a mark of illegitimacy.-Ed.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
4
The young boy hated having his illegitimacy jeered at by his schoolmates.
The Irish Times
5
The illegitimacy of his regime, and the legitimacy of the uprising, is clear.
The Guardian
6
Now, there were certainly some awkward circumstances in respect of this illegitimacy question.
Archibald Malmaison
7
What on earth did she mean by that conundrum about illegitimacy, I wonder?
South Wind
8
Not at all; that sort of illegitimacy is not recognized.
City of Endless Night
9
He had no means of disproving the illegitimacy of Emily.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue / A Tal...
10
As dearly as Edna Collins loved Jake, his illegitimacy grated on her moral values.
Do you take this rebel?
11
He shall not begin life manacled and shamed by illegitimacy.
Robin
12
And where marriage is prohibited, illegitimacy is sure to flourish.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
13
Why emphasise the fact of your illegitimacy to the public!
The Master-Christian
14
They demanded to know whether she accepted the Act of Supremacy and her own illegitimacy.
The tudors: the complete story of england's most notorious dynas...
15
They take a harsh stance on illegitimacy in Samsam.
Seraphina
16
How would Irene regard the fact of his illegitimacy?
The Crown of Life