| 单词 | unlawfully begotten |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunlawfully begotten (also conceived, born) 2. Outside marriage, illegitimately. unlawfully begotten (also conceived, born): illegitimate. Cf. unlawful adj. 4. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adverb] > illegitimately unlawfullya1425 bastardlike1563 spuriously1755 on the wrong side of the blanket1771 a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 19 (MED) I was vnlawfulli goten..I was gotyn in leccherye. ?a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Buik King Alexander the Conquerour (1986–90) l. 2096 It was renummyne That Alexander vnlauchfullie was cumin And that King Philipe his father neuir was. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 132 Athir Bastardis, or vnlawfollie gottin and borne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 193 Rather..then my sonne should be vnlawfullie borne. View more context for this quotation 1676 R. Dixon Nature Two Test. 362 Legitimating is the Justifying of a Bastard, by imputing the right of a lawful birth to him that was unlawfully born. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 203 What part, I being unlawfully born, may claim of the Man's Affection who begot me. 1838 G. L. Craik & C. MacFarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. I. iii. i. 416/2 The delicate point to be decided was..which of the two—the lawfully begotten nephew of a king, or the unlawfully begotten son of a king—was the greater personage. 1857 Athenæum 14 Feb. 208/1 The people in general are idle and ill-pantalooned, and their offspring run about or attend school, unlawfully born. 1914 Pacific Reporter 136 823/1 Mothers of unlawfully conceived children, for various reasons, charge different male persons of being the father of the same child. 2011 B. Purdy Tudor Throne xii. 117 My belly quickened with Tom Seymour's unlawfully, treasonously begotten bastard. < as lemmas |
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