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bastardy

[bas-ter-dee] / ˈbæs tər di /


NOUN
illegitimacy
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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

In the appellate division he argued 1,400 cases covering every imaginable kind of law from bastardy to bankruptcy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Woven into the fabric of complex New York City is the scarlet thread of bastardy which Dr. Ruth Reed of Indiana University has been unraveling for three years.

From Time Magazine Archive

An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; Ð called also bastard bar.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster


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