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Definition of Bastardizes
1. bastardize [v] - See also: bastardize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastardizes
Literary usage of Bastardizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Succession to the English Crown: A Historical Sketch by Alfred Bailey (1879)
"bastardizes But even if Edward's children were set aside Clarence's as illegitimate,
the son and daughter of Clarence ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"A world language is bad because it bastardizes those who speak it, and every
man's tongue is no man's tongue. It is a language spoken by mongrels, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Chancery of the State by New York (State). Court of Chancery, New York (State), Court of Chancery (1839)
"... the life of the parties, it renders it void from the beginning, and bastardizes
the issue thereof; but if not so dissolved, the issue are legitimate. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Henry Davison (1839)
"... marriage in Scotland invalidates the marriage of the Marquess with the daughter
of the Earl of Galloway, and bastardizes the offspring of that marriage. ..."
5. Introduction to American Law: Designed as a First Book for Students by Timothy Walker, Clement Bates (1887)
"... is much more liberal than the English rule, which requires the marriage to
precede the birth, and which bastardizes the issue of all unlawful marriages. ..."
6. The History of England by John Lingard, Hilaire Belloc (1874)
"Because it bastardizes the issue born before wedlock, . whereas the civil law
legitimates it ; 3. Because it makes the child of ..."
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