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illegitimacy

[il-i-jit-uh-muh-see] / ˌɪl ɪˈdʒɪt ə mə si /
NOUN
illegitimateness
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Mr. Brandreth also appreciates quite a few of Milne’s 40 well-made plays, which fashionably skirt around then-trendy issues of authenticity and illegitimacy in the most un-Ibsen-like way possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

He also insisted that Iran's doctrine was "rooted in our belief in the prohibition and illegitimacy of nuclear weapons".

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025

"This is a losing proposition all around. The Judiciary will lose much from the constant intimations of its illegitimacy," he wrote.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

As I was reading the book, I remembered the illegitimacy I felt as a child when I realized my parents were unwed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

The elder brother’s cowardice told him, in his craftier head, that a son could hardly raise his illegitimacy as a banner under which to overthrow his father.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

I asked him—a Scotch marriage, or some of those crooked wed-locks on which they found bigamies and illegitimacies.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

You never objected to any of the illegitimacies that have preceded FRITZ;—why then should you begin now?

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 by Various


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