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Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.

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

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

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

Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors..

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

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

Jacobinism :: Jacobinism (n.) The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.

Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard..

Lawful :: Lawful (a.) Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.

Legitimately :: Legitimately (adv.) In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.

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

Affiliate :: Affiliate (v. t.) To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another..

By-blow :: By-blow (n.) An illegitimate child; a bastard.

Revolt :: Revolt (n.) The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire..

Basely :: Basely (adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.

Legitimate :: Legitimate (v. t.) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child..

Illegitimation :: Illegitimation (n.) The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy.

Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference..

Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions..

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