The status of being born to parents who were not married.
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
6 She turned him down because of that whiff of bastardy . '
7 The question of bastardy was raised. Petre gulped nervously.
8 I always reveled a bit in some elitist bastardy .
9 He was tempted to tell the priest that he had just learned of his bastardy .
10 These were unavoidable weaknesses, established before I was born, but my bastardy afforded me great protection.
11 Her origin had been bastardy and the ocean.
12 Yes, stare at me well, Cousin Hester, stare at me, your cousin, though born in bastardy !
13 That the ensuing parliament ratified the act of the convention, and confirmed the bastardy of Edward's children.
14 Judging from heraldry, a Neapolitan count with at least three instances of bastardy in his ancestral line.
15 The law and its administration, on behalf of the parish, actually put a valuable premium on bastardy .
16 A message confirming and underlining Elizabeth's bastardy .
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