bastardy
Example Sentences
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But Bracton does have a lot to say about monsters, duels, bastardy, concubines, sturgeon “and other royal fish,” the “pillory and the ducking-stool," and "a judgment with infamy.”
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2022
That in heraldry, a bend sinister indicates bastardy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
In the appellate division he argued 1,400 cases covering every imaginable kind of law from bastardy to bankruptcy.
From Time Magazine Archive
To be called one's mother's son, as opposed to one's father's, was often an implication of bastardy, or at least a sign that one's paternity was unknown, whether divine or not.
From Time Magazine Archive
His sons, The Angels, to abase?—a bastardy Exalts, formed out of clay and dust?
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
