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
This is the young Arkady, illegitimate son of an aristocrat named Versilov, reared in loneliness in a series of boarding schools, and fiercely aware of his bastardy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Woven into the fabric of complex New York City is the scarlet thread of bastardy which Dr. Ruth Reed of Indiana University has been unraveling for three years.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1903 there were only eight cases of bastardy reported in the whole county, and two of those were among the white population.
From The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development by W. E. Burghardt DuBois
