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Meanings of bastardy in inglés

portugués
bastardia
catalán
il·legitimitat

The status of being born to parents who were not married.

bastardia
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Examples for "illegitimacy"
Examples for "illegitimacy"
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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
1
Not a man of them left a bar sinister on th' scutcheon!
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
2
At the same moment, verbally, he cast the bar sinister on my genealogy.
The Road
3
Also, she thought she was all-white, and never dreamed of a bar sinister.
A Son of the Sun
4
The history of France swarms with princes bearing the bar sinister on their shields.
The Ball at Sceaux
5
Had she been merely of illegitimate birth, he would have overlooked the bar sinister.
The House Behind the Cedars
Usage of bastardy in inglés
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There had been great disputes between the civil and ecclesiastical courts concerning bastardy.
The History of England, Volume I / From the Invasion of Julius C...
2
As men often are when they have the taint of bastardy.'
Sovereign
3
But Maria's guests had bastardy in their souls... perjury... adultery-theDevil.
The Demolished Man
4
Lord Chatterino: Birth; sixteen descents pure; one bastardy-fourdescents pure-asuspicion-one descent pure-a certainty.
The Monikins
5
The seal of bastardy set upon the baby brow of
A Study of Shakespeare
6
She turned him down because of that whiff of bastardy.'
Sovereign
7
The question of bastardy was raised. Petre gulped nervously.
The lady elizabeth
8
I always reveled a bit in some elitist bastardy.
Guns will keep us together
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He was tempted to tell the priest that he had just learned of his bastardy.
Non-Stop
10
These were unavoidable weaknesses, established before I was born, but my bastardy afforded me great protection.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
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Her origin had been bastardy and the ocean.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
12
Yes, stare at me well, Cousin Hester, stare at me, your cousin, though born in bastardy!
Shining Ferry
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That the ensuing parliament ratified the act of the convention, and confirmed the bastardy of Edward's children.
Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third
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Judging from heraldry, a Neapolitan count with at least three instances of bastardy in his ancestral line.
Quicksilver
15
The law and its administration, on behalf of the parish, actually put a valuable premium on bastardy.
Fragments of Two Centuries: Glimpses of Country Life when George...
16
A message confirming and underlining Elizabeth's bastardy.
The lady elizabeth
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bastardia
Bastardy through the time