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  1. Sep 28, 2017 · illegitimate. (adj.) 1530s, "born out of wedlock," formed in English (and replacing earlier illegitime, c. 1500), modeled on Late Latin illegitimus "not legitimate" (see il- + legitimate). Sense of "unauthorized, unwarranted" is from 1640s. Phrase illegitimi non carborundum, usually "translated" as "don't let the bastards grind you down," is ...

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    • Bastard

      bastard (n.) bastard. (n.) "illegitimate child," early 13c.,...

  2. The earliest known use of the word illegitimate is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for illegitimate is from 1536, in Acts of Parliament. illegitimate is a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin illegitimus, ‑ate suffix2. See etymology.

  3. Woodcut showing a hearing. In the law of England and Wales, a bastard (also historically called whoreson, although both of these terms have largely dropped from common usage) is an illegitimate child, one whose parents were not married at the time of their birth. Until 1926, there was no possibility of post factum legitimisation of a bastard.

  4. There are many references in genealogies and histories of natural sons and natural daughters of nobles and royalty during the Middle Ages -- people like Meiler Fitzhenry (son of Henry I of England), William Longsword (son of Henry II of England), Hamelin Plantagenet (son of Geoffrey of Anjou), and Joan of Wales (daughter of King John of England).

  5. Oct 5, 2022 · bastard (n.) bastard. (n.) "illegitimate child," early 13c., from Old French bastard "acknowledged child of a nobleman by a woman other than his wife" (11c., Modern French bâtard), probably from fils de bast "packsaddle son," meaning a child conceived on an improvised bed (saddles often doubled as beds while traveling), with pejorative ending ...

  6. All you need to know about "ILLEGITIMATE" in one place: definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.

  7. Jun 12, 2017 · That sense of what made a birth illegitimate, what made a child a ‘bastard’, matches the definition of nothus often found in early medieval sources. As one late-11th-century chronicler declared, the French called William ‘bastard’ because of his mixed parentage: he bore both noble and ignoble blood, ‘ obliquo sanguine ’.

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