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

But the argument quickly picked up steam when the talk turned to bastardy among the bluebloods.

From Time Magazine Archive

His reply shows he did not understand his first speech; as its general inferiority proves its legitimacy, as evidently as it does the bastardy of the original.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson