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Definition of Illegitimacy

1. Noun. The status of being born to parents who were not married.

2. Noun. Unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law.

Definition of Illegitimacy

1. n. The state of being illegitimate.

Definition of Illegitimacy

1. Noun. The state or condition of being illegitimate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Illegitimacy

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Medical Definition of Illegitimacy

1. The state of birth outside of wedlock. It may refer to the offspring or the parents. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Illegitimacy

illegality illegalization illegalizations illegalize illegalized illegalizes illegalizing illegally illegalness illegals

illegibilities illegibility illegible illegibly illegitimacies illegitimacy illegitimate illegitimate child illegitimate enterprise illegitimately

illegitimation illegitimations illegitimatize illegitimatized illegitimatizes illegitimatizing illeism illeist iller illest

Literary usage of Illegitimacy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"As generally defined, and as understood in this article, illegitimacy ... Illegitimacy is probably more general, more frequent, and more constant than the ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1872)
"After giving some statistics and results relating to the cost of pauperism and to illegitimacy, the author referred to the education of pauper children, ..."

3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"PROGRAM OF THE COMMITTEE ON Illegitimacy— COMMITTEE REPORT Mrs. Ada Eliot Sheffield, Director, Bureau on Illegitimacy, Boston The Committee on Illegitimacy ..."

4. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1894)
"STATISTICS OF Illegitimacy. NOT to know The Modern Review argues ourselves unknown, we fear -. but we confess we were unacquainted with this very ..."

5. Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Brockton, Mass. Based on by United States Children's Bureau, Mary V. Dempsey (1919)
"Two of these were excluded on account of illegitimacy. ... Illegitimacy.—Illegitimate children were excluded from the general tabulations for this study ..."

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