Bastardy

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  • noun. The condition of being born to parents not married to each other.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being a bastard, or begotten and born out of lawful wedlock.
  • noun. The act of begetting a bastard.
  • noun. A judicial proceeding to determine the paternity of a bastard child and compel its father to support it.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.
  • noun. The procreation of a bastard child.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The condition of being illegitimate, of being born to an unmarried woman or as the fruit of adultery.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the status of being born to parents who were not married
    • Word Usage
    "Certainly, the local courts acknowledged midwives 'claims for fee payment and recognized midwifery expenses as legitimate claims in bastardy cases."
    cross-reference
    declarator of bastardy  gift of bastardy  
    Form
    bastardy bond  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    position  status  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blighting  boyishness  club-shaped  ever-memorable  illegitimacy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    illegitimacy  
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