illegitimationn.
/ɪlɪdʒɪtɪˈmeɪʃən/ 1. The action of declaring illegitimate; a declaration of illegitimacy.
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society > law > rule of law > illegality > [noun] > declaring illegitimate
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1553 Act 1 Mary Sess. 2. c. 1 §2 In which said two Acts was contained the illegitimations of your most noble person.
1588 W. Allen Admon. to Nobility & People 52 The sentence declaratory of Pius Quintus..against the said [Queen] Elizabeth..concerning her illegitimation and vsurpation and inhabillite to the Crowne of England.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry 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.
1818 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 87 534 To found his title to the crown on the illegitimation, or bastardization of the children of Edward IV.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [noun] > illegitimacy
bastc1325
bastardy?a1400
bastardryc1425
bastardise1579
base1586
bastardism?1589
illegitimation1595
basenessa1616
bastardliness1647
illegitimateness1648
spuriousness1668
illegitimacy1680
1595 W. Allen et al. Conf. Next Succession Crowne of Ingland 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.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 243 To his illegitimation he added incest.
1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. vi. 101 A Baston, or a Bordure Gobonne, or some Mark of Illegitimation.
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