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illegitimation|ɪlɪdʒɪtɪˈmeɪʃən|
[f. illegitimate a., after legitimation: cf. obs. F. illégitimation in sense 2 (16th c. in Godefroy).]
1. The action of declaring illegitimate; a declaration of illegitimacy.
1553Act 1 Mary Sess. 2. c. 1 §2 In which said two Acts was contained the illegitimations of your most noble person. 1588Allen Admon. 52 The sentence declaratory of Pius Quintus..against the said [Queen] Elizabeth..concerning her illegitimation and vsurpation and inhabillite to the Crowne of England. 1622Bacon Hen. VII, 28 Richard the third had a Resolution..to disable their Issues vpon false and incompetent Pretexts; the one, of Attaindor; the other, of Illegitimation. 1818W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXXVII. 534 To found his title to the crown on the illegitimation, or bastardization of the children of Edward IV.
†2. Illegitimate condition: = illegitimacy.
1594Parsons Confer. Success. ii. vi. 134 They proue the illegitimation of these children of the Earle of Hartford, for that it could neuer be lawfully proued that the said earle and the lady Catherin were married. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 243 To his illegitimation he added incest. 1707J. Chamberlayne State Gt. Brit. ii. vi. 101 A Baston, or a Bordure Gobonne, or some Mark of Illegitimation. |