illegitimacy
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Mr. Brandreth also appreciates quite a few of Milne’s 40 well-made plays, which fashionably skirt around then-trendy issues of authenticity and illegitimacy in the most un-Ibsen-like way possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
He also insisted that Iran's doctrine was "rooted in our belief in the prohibition and illegitimacy of nuclear weapons".
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025
As I was reading the book, I remembered the illegitimacy I felt as a child when I realized my parents were unwed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
A military commission examining the practice in 2005 concluded that it bordered on illegality and illegitimacy.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
The elder brother’s cowardice told him, in his craftier head, that a son could hardly raise his illegitimacy as a banner under which to overthrow his father.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
You never objected to any of the illegitimacies that have preceded FRITZ;—why then should you begin now?
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 by Various
I asked him—a Scotch marriage, or some of those crooked wed-locks on which they found bigamies and illegitimacies.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
