bastardism

noun7

1. •
   The condition of being born out of wedlock; bastardy.

   • So much in those days for royal bastardism. — 1829
2. •
   An act or quality of being bastardly; contemptibleness, cruelty, or lack of proper behavior.

   • By God, indeed; I cannot stand your bastardism, Jacques,” and I took my blanket in hand, dashed from the room, and made my bed in the hallway. — 2005
3. •
   Racial impurity; that state or quality of being mixed-race.

   • We may well shudder in thinking of the results of such marriages from the triple view of criminality, bastardism of the race, and wretched homes. — 1900
4. •
   Sexual reproduction involving different species.

   • It is generally well known that all efforts of bastardism to propagate are sterile, and we need not witness the efforts of the horse and mule trying to create a new and better species. — 1886
5. •
   An unnatural combination; a mixture of things that do not belong together.

   • The innovations and bastardisms wrought into Masonry since 1844, by that unfortunate book, exceed, when summed up, the innovations and bastardisms from all other sources united. — 1864
6. •
   A tendency to produce bastards; lack of chastity.

   • These included "Bastardism", the alleged tendency among the French of begetting illegitimate children, with which they might be expected to swamp Britain and "to weaken the State" itself. — 2005
7. •
   Ideological concern with whether someone is related by blood.