noun
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A person born to unmarried parents.
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verb
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To make illegitimate.
adjective
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Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
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Not in accordance with the law.
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Not sanctioned by marriage.
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Not correctly deduced.
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an illegitimate inference
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Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
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an illegitimate word
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Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
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illegitimate union; illegitimate fertilization
Examples of illegitimate in a Sentence
The cousin had to be the illegitimate daughter of the old man.
Experiment showed that legitimate unions yield a larger quantity of seed than illegitimate.
He died in 1458, leaving Naples t le Mo to his illegitimate son Ferdinand I.
He seems, in addition, to have compromised his position with the grandducal family by the imprudent candour with which he condemned a machine for clearing the port of Leghorn, invented by Giovanni de' Medici, an illegitimate son of Cosmo I.
John averted the danger by arranging a marriage between his son Henry and Constance, the eldest daughter of John of Gaunt, an alliance which united the two equally illegitimate lines representing Alphonso XI., and so closed the dispute as to the succession.
Not only was she officially still illegitimate, she was also considered a heretic.
If Arran were illegitimate, Lennox was next heir to the throne, and the consequent Stewart-Hamilton feud was to ruin Mary Stuart.
Arran must have perceived that Henry had infuriated the Scots and that the cardinal might adopt the claims of Lennox and proclaim Arran illegitimate.
The date of his birth as commonly given, 1483, seems to be about ten years too early, and surmises which have passed current that he was some one's illegitimate child are of no authority.
They rejected as an illegitimate interpolation the eternal subject of development, and, instead of one continuing God as the subject of all the predicates by which in the logic the absolute is defined, assumed only a series of ideas, products of philosophic activity.
Fox replied with some warmth, and Wolsey had to wait until Fox's death before he could add Winchester to his archbishopric of York and his abbey of St Albans, and thus leave Durham vacant as he hoped for the illegitimate son on whom (aged 18) he had already conferred a deanery, four archdeaconries, five prebends and a chancellorship.
Among the Kabyles the adulteress is put to death, as are those women who have illegitimate children, the latter suffering with their mothers.
The favour he showed his bastards led to protest from the nobles, and to conflicts between his sons legitimate and illegitimate.
By his second wife, Euphemia, daughter of Hugh, earl of Ross, and widow of Moray, formerly his colleague as regent, he had two sons and several daughters; and he had also many illegitimate children.
Of course, persons born from villein parents in lawful wedlock were villeins, but as to the condition of illegitimate children there was a good deal of hesitation.
The question of illegitimate births is the last to be here mentioned.
It should be remarked, in passing, that these rates are enormously higher amongst illegitimate children than amongst those born in wedlock, and that the proportion of still-born amongst the former is also in excess of that amongst the latter by some 50%.
We do not need to be reminded that Beatrice's adorer had a wife and children, or that Laura's poet owned a son and daughter by a concubine, in order to perceive that the mystic passion of chivalry was compatible in the middle ages with commonplace matrimony or vulgar illegitimate connexions.
In 1477 it was annexed by Louis XI., king of France, and was held by two illegitimate branches of the royal family in the 16th and 17th centuries, being in 1696 reunited to the crown.
An illegitimate child is an heir of its mother and of the person who acknowledges himself to be its father.
He also left several illegitimate children, two of whom were by Anne, countess of Macclesfield.
On this ground, in an account of taxation proper, one might avoid discussing altogether the question of irregular or illegitimate taxation.
In the later battle of Kossovo of 14 4 8, between the Hungarians, led by Hunyadi Janos and the sultan Hungary Murad II., the Walachian contingent treacherously surrendered to the Turks; but this did not hinder the prevalent laxity of marriage, the frequency of divorce, and the fact that illegitimate children could succeed as well as those born in lawful wedlock, by multiplying the candidates for the voivodeship and preventing any regular system of succession, contributed much to the internal confusion of the country.
His illegitimate son and successor, Constantine erban (1654-58), was the last of the Bassaraba dynasty to rule over Walachia; and on his death the Turkish yoke again weighed heavier on his country.
During his papacy Calixtus became involved in a quarrel with his former friend, Alphonso of Aragon, now also king of Naples, and after the king's death in June 1458 he refused to recognize his illegitimate son, Ferdinand, as king of Naples, asserting that this kingdom was a fief of the Holy See.
By his will he left the Cyrenaica as a separate kingdom to his illegitimate son Ptolemy Apion (116-96), whilst Egypt and Cyprus were bequeathed to Cleopatra (Kokke) and whichever of his two sons by her,
His brother Huascar succeeded Huayna Capac in 1527; for, as Atahualipa was not descended on both sides from the line of Incas, Peruvian law considered him illegitimate.
Matilda had a few genuine partisans, such as her half-brother Robert, earl of Gloucester, tile illegitimate son of Henry I., btit the large majority of those who took arms in her name were ready to sell their allegiance to either candidate in return for lands, or grants of rank or privilege.
There is a hare possibility that the young adventurer may have been an illegitimate son of Edward IV.; his likeness to the late king was much noticed.
It also empowered the king to leave the crown by will if he had no legitimate issue; but the illegitimate son, the duke of Richmond, in whose favor this provision is said to have been conceived, died shortly afterwards.
Under the will of his father, Colonel William Berkeley, the eldest illegitimate son, had the castle and estates, and on the failure of his claim to the earldom he demanded a writ of summons as a baron by reason of his tenure of the castle.
The administration remained in the hands of the eunuch Basileios (an illegitimate son of Romanus I.), president of the senate, a wily and gifted man, who hoped that the young emperors would be his puppets.
When the physicist limits the term "knowledge" to the conclusions from physical apprehensions, his refusal to extend it to conclusions from moral and spiritual apprehensions is merely the consequence of an illegitimate definition.
Displeased with the action of the regent Orleans in degrading the illegitimate children of Louis XIV.
The number of illegitimate births is always very small in proportion to the legitimate.
In 1905 illegitimate births numbered 2710 or 2.6 of the whole, a percentage which has been very constant for a number of years.
As the tie of the sept was blood, all the acknowledged children of a man, whether legitimate or illegitimate, belonged equally to his sept.
The only unsatisfactory points are the great number of illegitimate births, and the high infant mortality.
He left two illegitimate sons, and his descendants can be traced till 1687.
Of the latter many were accompanied by their wives, though the Russian law allows divorce in the case of such sentences; the emperor unwillingly allowed the devoted women to go, but decreed that any children born to them in Siberia would be illegitimate.
Many of the legitimate pleasures of this earthly existence got tossed with the illegitimate ones.
But telecoms analyst John Delaney of Ovum said T-Mobile's decision was " not entirely illegitimate " .
The notice exercising the power of sale was not illegitimate or improper.
It becomes violence, and therefore illegitimate, only in the eye of the beholder.
Of course, the anarchist must still explain why hierarchies emerge and are so durable if they are so clearly morally illegitimate.
They are trying to portray it as a completely illegitimate result and Oona King was even on the Today program this morning.
Sir Jeremy has called the war " politically illegitimate " and his book is being blocked.
Their son King Edward V is therefore declared illegitimate.
John was born illegitimate at Cottingham as John SWAN, he moved to Elizabeth | Her parents were James and Jain.
The child is considered illegitimate in terms of intestacy.