Sekirov Dictionary

illegitimate

[ɪlɨˈd͡ʒɪɾəmɨt]

adjective 8
noun 1
[ɪlɨˈd͡ʒɪɾəmeɪt] verb 1
forms 5

adjective8

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Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
- […] it may be impossible to convince them that the illegitimate power which they obtain, by degrading themselves, is a curse […] — 1791
•
Not sanctioned by marriage.
- If we credit the scandal of the former [i.e. his enemies], Artaxerxes sprang from the illegitimate commerce of a tanner’s wife with a common soldier. — 1783
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Born to unmarried parents.
- I am a bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valour, in every thing illegitimate. — 1602
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(old-fashioned) Having a child or children with a person to whom one is not married.
- I heard last night that a what-do-you-call it?—claimant?—has arrived who says Pat Wayne is his illegitimate father. — 1935
•
Not in accordance with the law.
- […] if things went on at this rate it would be doubtful soon whether ever again he would be able to win another election by methods legitimate or illegitimate. — 1914
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Not correctly deduced.
- […] in natural things we must have recourse […] to experience. And all reasoning that is not supported so, ought to be repudiated, or at least suspected to be illegitimate. — 1658
Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.

noun1

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A person born to unmarried parents.
- Her father and mine was a shameless man and of all his illegitimates I am the most unfortunate and poverty stricken. — 1966

illegitimate

[ɪlɨˈd͡ʒɪɾəmeɪt]

verb1

To make illegitimate.

forms

illegitimated · illegitimating · illegitimates · more illegitimate · most illegitimate

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