illegitimacy
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The University of Washington appears to have enshrined an orthodoxy about the illegitimacy of its own existence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
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
Therefore anti-war protesters coalesced in Chicago to protest Humphrey's impending coronation, lending an air of illegitimacy to the otherwise inevitable.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2024
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
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
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 Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
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
