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(uncountable) The condition of being born out of wedlock; bastardy..
So much in those days for royal bastardism.
At least in the case of the election of that illustrious bastard who took the name of Clement VII, the cardinal electors were given to understand that their favorite candidates bastardy was not quite uncontroverted, or uncontrovertible; but in the case of the clergymen alluded to, no doubt could be entertained as to their bastardism on account of the civil marriage of their parents .
Among the atrociously unjust arrangements arising from prejudice and bad law, there is none greater than that of saddling a guiltless man with the stigma and legal disabilities of bastardism, because of acts of his father, which the son could in no way control.
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.
Off the sports pitch, however—and perhaps this was the reason he first took to it—Fidel suffered from bullying about his bastardism, rumours of which had spread north to Banes from the Las Manacas ranch in Bira/n, and then south to Santiago, along the lines of money and influence of his father's circle.
A full one-third, and oftentimes more, is expended upon officials and in defraying establishment charges; the remainder is wasted upon the most worthless and vicious of the population, and in sustaining bastardism.
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.
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.
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Bastardism means (uncountable) The condition of being born out of wedlock; bastardy..
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So much in those days for royal bastardism.
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