born of a concubine, bastard.

= misbegotten, adj.

Illegitimate, born out of wedlock.

= misbegotten, adj.

Born out of wedlock; of illegitimate birth.

Of offspring: born outside marriage, illegitimate.

Of a person: related genetically but not legally to his or her father; born outside marriage, illegitimate.

= illegitimate, adj.

Illegitimate; born or occurring out of wedlock, bastard. Now chiefly historical.

Forming adjectives with past participles with the sense ‘out of wedlock’, as base-begot, base-begotten, etc., or in sense A. 6b, as base-bred. See…

spec. Not born in lawful wedlock; not recognized by law as lawful offspring; spurious, bastard. (The earliest sense in English.)

Of a person, esp. a child: unlawfully begotten; illegitimate.

Adulterated; spurious.

Born out of wedlock, illegitimate; (hence) of low birth or origin (frequently as a term of abuse). Also figurative. Obsolete.

Having no legal right to a name; illegitimate. Obsolete.

Of persons: Begot or born out of wedlock; illegitimate, bastard, adulterous.

Having no (known or acknowledged) father; illegitimate.

= misbegotten, adj.

= misbegotten, adj. Now archaic and poetic.

Illegitimate, born out of wedlock.

illegitimately born.

born in (or †under or out of) wedlock: said distinctively of legitimate or illegitimate offspring. Now the most frequent use of the noun.

Of a child: born out of wedlock; illegitimate. Obsolete.

(of a child) = illegitimate, adj. 2a.

Phrases. a wet blanket: a person or thing that throws a damper over anything, as a wet blanket smothers fire. born on the wrong side of the blanket…

Of a person's child: unacknowledged, illegitimate. Cf. nameless, adj. 4a. Now rare.

figurative. Born out of wedlock, illegitimate. Cf. sinister, adj. 10, left-handed, adj. 2f. Obsolete.