Bastardism

Quick meaning: Bastardism is a noun meaning (uncountable) The condition of being born out of wedlock; bastardy.

Meaning

(uncountable) The condition of being born out of wedlock; bastardy.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) A tendency to produce bastards; lack of chastity.
2. (uncountable) Racial impurity; that state or quality of being mixed-race.
3. (uncountable) Sexual reproduction involving different species.
4. (countable, uncountable) An unnatural combination; a mixture of things that do not belong together.
5. (uncountable) Ideological concern with whether someone is related by blood.
6. (countable, uncountable) An act or quality of being bastardly; contemptibleness, cruelty, or lack of proper behavior.

Example Sentences

So much in those days for royal bastardism.

As has been said before, it is only in that portion of Constantinople which is under Christian civilization that bastardism, street immorality, and adultery prevail.

These included "Bastardism", the alleged tendency among the French of begetting illegitimate children, with which they might be expected to swamp Britain and "to weaken the State" itself.

This prohibition does not only apply to her competency as a witness, but it is a rule of law governing any right of action which she may set up involving such bastardism of her own offspring born in wedlock.

Word Forms

• bastardisms

Related Words

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