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illegitimacy

[il-i-jit-uh-muh-see] / ˌɪl ɪˈdʒɪt ə mə si /
NOUN
illegitimateness
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The answer was provided in "The Authentic Appeal of the Lying Demagogue: Proclaiming the Deeper Truth about Political Illegitimacy," by Oliver Hahl and colleagues.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2019

The book that prompted that thinking was called “The Illegitimacy of Jesus,” by a Biblical scholar named Jane Schaberg.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2016

That’s when I first encountered Jane Schaberg’s book The Illegitimacy of Jesus, which was important to the central ideas in Mary Wept.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2016

Illegitimacy was such a stigma at the time that Virginia would never have been approached by a scion of a wealthy family like Marsili.

From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2012

Illegitimacy was a serious, but, it might be thought, was not an absolute, bar.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.




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