Illegitimacy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ILLEGITIMACY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being illegitimate
• the state of not being in accordance with accepted standards or rules; lack of authorization by the law
• the state of being born to parents not lawfully married to each other
• The state of being illegitimate.
• the status of being born to parents who were not married
• unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being illegitimate

Words related to ILLEGITIMACY

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How to use ILLEGITIMACY in a sentence

• But in spite of all this, illegitimacy is not a desirable distinction, and is likely to become less so as these people of mixed blood advance in wealth and social standing.
• I do not speak of such lesser disadvantages as may be involved in illegitimacy.
• As soon as love was allowed a voice in the arrangement of marriages illegitimacy decreased rapidly.
• Ryves had succeeded in proving that her mother was a princess of the blood royal, she would at the same time have established her own illegitimacy.
• He also desired, that his brother should satisfy him, as well as the public, by a declaration of the illegitimacy of the duke of Monmouth.
• There is also alleged to be sometimes an increase of illegitimacy in the neighborhood of training camps.
• It is much better to live as the adopted, but honored, child in a home than it is to have to bear the stigma of illegitimacy.
• We must abolish these atrocious Separation Orders, with their direct promotion of every kind of immorality, illegitimacy and cruelty to women.
• Let us strive to dignify marriage, to educate the young of both sexes for parenthood, to reduce illegitimacy, to reward virtue.
• The other suggestion concerning the illegitimacy of his birth, is equally false.
• To be illegitimate would be, he thought, nothing unless illegitimacy carried with it loss of property.
• For what purpose? His daughter may have guessed that the proofs of her illegitimacy were kept there, and tried to get them.
• Illegitimacy not considered a disgrace in Scotland, 131.
• Peter took no pains to conceal his intentions, and gloried in proclaiming the illegitimacy of Paul, the son of the empress.

Similar words containing LEGITIMA without suffix cy and without prefix il

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