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Definition of Bastardies
1. bastardy [n] - See also: bastardy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastardies
Literary usage of Bastardies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"But now the frendes of Hartford do answere to al these bastardies, that for the
first two pretended by the marriages of the two Dukes of Suffolk, ..."
2. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Sir Egerton Brydges (1808)
"... to a! these bastardies, that for the first two pretended by the marriages of
the two Dukes of Suffolk, they saye that cither the causes might be such, ..."
3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"And if we observed the great crosses many times God permits in great families,
as discontent in marriages, artificial or natural bastardies, a society of ..."
4. Works by James Fenimore Cooper (1892)
"... six descents pure—three bastardies—eleven descents pure—a certainty—a
suspicion—unknown. Decree as of record ; it is found that the advantage is on the ..."
5. The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq.: With Memoirs of His Life and by Edward Gibbon, John Baker Holroyd Sheffield (1837)
"... II. and the sole heiress of the house of Swabia ; a title incontrovertible,
had it been pure ; but Ferdinand's blood was defiled liv two bastardies, ..."