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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bastardy \Bas"tar*dy\, n.
The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.
The procreation of a bastard child.
--Wharton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "condition of illegitimacy," from Anglo-French and Old French bastardie, from bastard (see bastard). As "begetting of bastards, fornication" from 1570s.
Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) The condition of being illegitimate, of being born to an unmarried woman or as the fruit of adultery.
WordNet
n. the status of being born to parents who were not married [syn: illegitimacy, bar sinister]
Wikipedia
- redirect Legitimacy (family law)
Usage examples of "bastardy".
When Race arrived at the matter of the approaching bastardy, Tris looked at Anne.
His family drew its current rank by bastardy out of an infamous house not unacquainted with the Vatican.
The age of the tomb, however, implied it had preceded the advent of the noble bastardy which lifted the Scorpioni to possession of this ground -or, more strange, that the sepulchre had been brought with them from some other spot, a brooding heirloom.
One facet of their ploy was to claim that all Kings since the Abdication of Chivalry were pretenders, that the bastardy of FitzChivalry Farseer was wrongly construed as an obstacle to his inheriting the throne.
But he said that the English idea that compulsory education would reduce bastardy and intemperance was an error--it has not that effect.
And a proclamation of bastardy against the person calling himself Prince Vindax!
If he supported Jarkadon, then the proclamation of bastardy effectively named him as a traitor for fathering Vindax and he must turn against his own son as a pretender.
The Sassenach wench had somewhere heard the contemptible tales of bastardy and revenge that seemed to fly so eagerly from one vicious wagging tongue to the next.
Or who shall discover why derivation becomes degeneration, and where and when and how the bastardy befalls?
One facet of their ploy was to claim that all Kings since the Abdication of Chivalry were pretenders, that the bastardy of FitzChivalry Farseer was wrongly construed as an obstacle to his inheriting the throne.
But the fact that he has made you all think and aware of what you are, to my mind has added insult to injury, for you know you are carrying a stigma, whereas, if he had left you like the rest of the clodhoppers in the village and round about, they would have accepted you, and laughed at you, and with you, and joked about your bastardy.
Even the money paid to the most passionate nurses, the dreamiest artists, freshly printed, very dry, and shallowly embossed to the fingertips, had its origins in some bastardy on the sweatshop floor.
Scotland had always been different from the rest of Europe in the way it looked at kinship, and while Niall's bastardy would normally have put him beyond the pale, in Scotland the crown had been up for grabs by the one who wielded the most power.
The arms of Charlotte-Adélaide were a quartering of those of de Gex and de Crépy, and to make the arms of d’Ozoir, these had been recursively quartered with those of the House of de Lavardac d’Arcachon—themselves a quartering of something that included a lot of fleurs-de-lis, with an arrangement of black heads in iron collars, slashed with a bend sinister to indicate bastardy.
He handled every kind of case--land transfers, trespass, admiralty, marine insurance, murder, adultery, rape, bastardy, buggery, assault and battery, tarring and feathering.