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Illegitimate

adjective

Contrary to or forbidden by law. Synonyms: illicit, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful. "Illicit trade" , "An outlaw strike" , "Unlawful measures"

Of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful.

noun

The illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents. Synonyms: bastard, by-blow, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson.

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"Illegitimate" Quotes from Famous Books

... Fancy's child; oft branded as an illegitimate, yet esteemed above and beyond all the royal progeny of the proudest intellect, enshrined in the sanctum sanctorum, the veritable holy-of-holies of the human heart. Hope is not a virtue; it is but a rainbow ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... last, and sought at first to drive him out of the succession without bloodshed. He attempted to have him pronounced illegitimate, on the ground that he was the son of Ivan's seventh wife (the orthodox Church recognizing no wife as legitimate beyond the third). But in this he failed. The memory of the terrible Tsar, the fear of him, was still alive in superstitious Russia, and none dared to dishonour ...

— The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series • Rafael Sabatini

... the greatest confusion has been created by socialist writers, who conclude, because they read in the works of some of the Fathers that private property did not exist by natural law, that it was therefore condemned by them as an illegitimate institution. Nothing could be more erroneous. All that the Fathers meant in these passages was that in the state of nature—the idealised Golden Age of the pagans, or the Garden of Eden of the Christians—there was no individual ownership of goods. The very ...

— An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching • George O'Brien

... the government was built up on this miserable foundation. With bribery, corruption, and sudden wealth, the most shameful immorality existed everywhere. Out of every one thousand births, one third were illegitimate. The theatres were disgraced by the most indecent plays. Money and pleasure had become the gods of France, and Paris more than ever before was the centre ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume IX • John Lord

... quick survey of his early years—the years of drudgery and privation. His father, a charming man who could never say "no," had so signally failed to say it on certain essential occasions that when he died he left an illegitimate family and a mortgaged estate. His lawful kin found themselves hanging over a gulf of debt, and young Granice, to support his mother and sister, had to leave Harvard and bury himself at eighteen in a broker's office. He loathed his work, and he was always poor, always worried and in ...

— Tales Of Men And Ghosts • Edith Wharton

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