Bastardization

Quick meaning: Bastardization is a noun meaning The making of a bastard or bastards; Having children out of wedlock or destroying the legitimacy of children's paternity.

Meaning

The making of a bastard or bastards; Having children out of wedlock or destroying the legitimacy of children's paternity.

More Meanings

1. The creation of offspring from two different species; cross-breeding.
2. (by extension) The combining of separate races in marriage or breeding; miscegenation.
3. Any change or neologism in language that is viewed as a degradation.
4. (more generally) The creation of an inferior copy or version; corruption, degradation, or debasement.
5. Activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group.

Example Sentences

The flimsy bastardization of the princes was a flagrant violation of a cherished medieval principle, the right of inheritance.

Our conclusion is not founded on the traditional arguments against bastardization: the social stigma imposed on the child and the financial burden imposed on the state.

This is a basis for a natural, even though slow, process of regeneration, which gradually eliminates racial poisonings as long as a basic stock of racially pure elements is still present and a further bastardization does not take place.

Given the serious and long-lasting effects of bastardization, resolution of the paternity issue should be accomplished with the active participation of the court, rather than involvement that is limited to reviewing a previously-executed document.

Word Forms

• bastardizations
• bastardisation

Synonyms for bastardization

Depending on context, synonyms include bastardisation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bastardisation, bastardry, illegitimation, imbastardizing, misbegotten, miscome.

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