Synonyms for illegitimacy


Grammar : Noun
Spell : il-i-jit-uh-muh-see
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪl ɪˈdʒɪt ə mə si


Définition of illegitimacy

Origin :
  • 1670s; see illegitimate + -acy.
  • noun illegitimateness
Example sentences :
  • There is a sin of illegitimacy, which, indeed, I would emphasize as strongly as I am able.
  • Extract from : « Women's Wild Oats » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
  • Even if illegitimacy were the only reason, that would not concern the philologist.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Names » by Ernest Weekley
  • Illegitimacy is, however, the larger problem in rural amentia.
  • Extract from : « Rural Problems of Today » by Ernest R. Groves
  • Illegitimacy seems not to have been a matter of the slightest consequence.
  • Extract from : « The History of Chivalry, Volume I (of 2) » by Charles Mills
  • It does not abdicate, when men allege the illegitimacy of its authority.
  • Extract from : « Theoretical Ethics » by Milton Valentine
  • The illegitimacy of this procedure has already been pointed out.
  • Extract from : « A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' » by Norman Kemp Smith
  • And you must have proofs of his illegitimacy if you will only give them.
  • Extract from : « Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) » by Mary Cholmondeley
  • See Legitimacy and Legitimation; and, for statistics, Illegitimacy.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 4 » by Various
  • Illegitimacy is often due to ignorance of men as well as of women.
  • Extract from : « Sex-education » by Maurice Alpheus Bigelow
  • The Susians had not the least interest in the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the king.
  • Extract from : « The History of Antiquity » by Max Duncker

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