bastardy
Example Sentences
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But Bracton does have a lot to say about monsters, duels, bastardy, concubines, sturgeon “and other royal fish,” the “pillory and the ducking-stool," and "a judgment with infamy.”
From Washington Post • May 9, 2022
That in heraldry, a bend sinister indicates bastardy.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2019
This is the young Arkady, illegitimate son of an aristocrat named Versilov, reared in loneliness in a series of boarding schools, and fiercely aware of his bastardy.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the argument quickly picked up steam when the talk turned to bastardy among the bluebloods.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet before it can be done we shall need an immediate and great reform of our bad and antiquated bastardy and affiliation laws.
From Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
