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Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child..

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word..

Spurless :: Spurious (a.) Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue..

Legitimateness :: Legitimateness (n.) The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.

Legitimist :: Legitimist (n.) One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right..

Mulierly :: Mulierly (adv.) In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately.

Legitimatize :: Legitimatize (v. t.) To legitimate.

Illegitimatize :: Illegitimatize (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to bastardize.

Legitimize :: Legitimize (v. t.) To legitimate.

Base :: Base (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.

"""bastard " :: Bastard (n.) A natural child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union..

Natural :: Natural (a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child..

Adulterine :: Adulterine (n.) An illegitimate child.

Legitimacy :: Legitimacy (a.) The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock..

Champerty :: Champerty (n.) The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit. See Maintenance..

Bastardize :: Bastardize (v. t.) To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

Bastard :: Bastard (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note..

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference..

Miscreate :: Miscreate (a.) Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles..

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