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Illegitimacy :: Illegitimacy (n.) The state of being illegitimate.

Legitimately :: Legitimately (adv.) In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.

Child :: Child (n.) A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants..

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word..

Natural :: Natural (a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child..

Legitimatize :: Legitimatize (v. t.) To legitimate.

Legitimate :: Legitimate (v. t.) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child..

Legitimation :: Legitimation (n.) The act of making legitimate.

Legitimist :: Legitimist (n.) One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right..

Basely :: Basely (adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.

Spurless :: Spurious (a.) Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue..

Legitimated :: Legitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Legitimat.

Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions..

Champerty :: Champerty (n.) The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit. See Maintenance..

Illegitimately :: Illegitimately (adv.) In a illegitimate manner; unlawfully.

Bastardize :: Bastardize (v. t.) To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

Base :: Base (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.

Legitimize :: Legitimize (v. t.) To legitimate.

Bastard :: Bastard (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note..

Titleless :: Titleless (a.) Not having a title or name; without legitimate title.

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