bastardy

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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

For Tin Tan is a master of pocho, and pocho, a bilingual bastardy of anglicized Mexican,� is as funny to Mexican ears as the English of a stage Englishman is to Americans.

From Time Magazine Archive

To acknowledge the young Queen was not only to own her mother's marriage, but to cancel the solemn judgement of the Holy See in Catharine's favour and its solemn assertion of her own bastardy.

From History of the English People, Volume IV by Green, John Richard