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Definition of Lawfully-begotten
1. Adjective. Born in wedlock; enjoying full filial rights.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lawfully-begotten
Literary usage of Lawfully-begotten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1809)
"lady Frances and to the heirs male of the body of the said lady Jane lawfully
begotten anri fur lack of such heirs male of the body of the said lady Jane ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and by Thomas Bayly Howell, David Jardine (1816)
"lady Frances and to the heirs male of the body of the said lady Jane lawfully
begotten and fur lack of such heirs male of the body of the said lady Jane ..."
3. The Chronicle of Queen Jane: And of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially by John Gough Nichols (1850)
"... and be to the eldest sonne of the bodie of the seconde daughter of the said
ladie Jane lawfully begotten, and to the heires males of the body of the ..."
4. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"... to tbe faid Lady Mary, and Lady Elizabeth, being illegitimate, and not lawfully
begotten, for that the Marriage had, between the said late King, ..."
5. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1808)
"... and appoint, that if it should fortune himself our said late cousin, King
Edward the Sixth, to decease, having no issue of his body lawfully begotten, ..."
6. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1829)
"PART our said late cousin king Edward the Sixth, to decease, II- having no issue
of his body lawfully begotten, that then the said imperial crown of England ..."
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