Definition of Illegitimacies

1. illegitimacy [n] - See also: illegitimacy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Illegitimacies

illegalities
illegality
illegalization
illegalizations
illegalize
illegalized
illegalizes
illegalizing
illegally
illegalness
illegals
illegibilities
illegibility
illegible
illegibly
illegitimacies (current term)
illegitimacy
illegitimate
illegitimate child
illegitimate enterprise
illegitimately
illegitimation
illegitimations
illegitimatize
illegitimatized
illegitimatizes
illegitimatizing
illeism
illeist
iller

Literary usage of Illegitimacies

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

1. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"As for the illegitimacies, she showed little or no concern over them, nor was the truth ever learned concerning them. To make a long story short, ..."

2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1888)
"The number of illegitimacies is very great. The Board of Health reports that an estimate of still-born children found in sinks, etc., would be not less than ..."

3. American Charities by Amos Griswold Warner (1908)
"In the family history are murders, a large number of illegitimacies, and out of the 1092 individuals whose cases have been investigated, 121 are known to ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1840)
"The House of Montmorency—House of Lusignan —Wallenstein—illegitimacies in Great Families—La Rochefoucauld—Madame de Sevigné—M. de Tocqueville—The Count de ..."

5. The Charity Organization Movement in the United States: A Study in American by Frank Dekker Watson (1922)
"In their family history were murderers, a large number of illegitimacies and of prostitutes. They were generally diseased. The children died young. ..."

6. Heredity in Relation to Eugenics by Charles Benedict Davenport (1911)
"In this family history are murderers, a large number of illegitimacies and of prostitutes. They are generally diseased. The children die young. ..."

7. Siam: The Land of the White Elephant, as it was and is by George Blagden Bacon (1892)
"Its record shows, on the whole, a remarkable regularity of succession, with perhaps no more intrigues, illegitimacies, murders, and assassinations than are ..."

8. Heredity and Eugenics: A Course of Lectures Summarizing Recent Advances in by William Ernest Castle (1912)
"In this family history are murders, a large number of illegitimacies, and of prostitutes. They are generally diseased. The children die young. ..."

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