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
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
In condoning bastardy, North Dakota and Arizona are the most liberal States in the Union.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Conqueror never escaped the reproach of his birth, into which bastardy and plebeianism entered in equal proportions.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
