ILLEGITIMATE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of illegitimate in English

(Definition of illegitimate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of illegitimate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of illegitimate

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In this sample, in fact, 59 per cent of the legitimate children entered in the first month of life, compared with 43 per cent of the illegitimates.
Perhaps the wounds of illegitimates are much deeper than others fully appreciate.
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They had before them no statistics on which they could base conclusions, and they found it impossible to estimate the effect of any extension of rights in relation to illegitimates.
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In contrast, concerns about 'leakage' to illegitimate beneficiaries are strong.
Is punishment for attempts at crime or for reckless behavior illegitimate?
They are framing these old institutions, considered the legitimate units in international politics, as illegitimate ones.
Network marketers find it easier to embed their illegitimate sales-agent identity in a legitimate friendship identity, but not the other way around.
At the same time, they were the appeals cour ts that reviewed claims that lower-level judges had made illegitimate rulings.
During the period 1875-1893 they had seven illegitimate children.
If they did not, then the decision-its substance aside-can be seen as illegitimate with respect to those millions of citizens in a rather egregious way.
However, they are no more illegitimate than the geophysicist's similar answer to the similar question.
Figure 1 shows the differences in infant mortality between illegitimate and legitimate children for the period 1751-1920.
Even if those individuals are considered, the number of illegitimate children boarded out in 1868-1871 was remarkably low compared to the other two periods.
The women whose illegitimate children were boarded out in 1830 -1837 were usually middleaged women with more than one child born out of wedlock.
Initial investigations do not refute the possibility that the foundlings were predominately illegitimate.
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Translations of illegitimate

in Chinese (Traditional)
非婚生的,私生的, 非法的, 不公的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
非婚生的,私生的, 非法的, 不公的…
in Spanish
ilegítimo, ilegítimo/ima [masculine-feminine]…
in Portuguese
ilegítimo, ilegítimo/-ma…
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evlilik dışı çocuk, gayri meşru çocuk, yasadışı…
illégitime…
非嫡出(ひちゃくしゅつ)の…
onwettig, onrechtmatig…
nemanželský, nezákonný…
uægte, uretmæssig, ulovlig…
haram, tidak diterima…
ซึ่งเป็นลูกนอกสมรส, ซึ่งผิดกฎหมาย…
đẻ hoang, không chính đáng…
nieślubny, bezprawny, nieprawny…
illegitim, utomäktenskaplig, olaglig…
anak luar nikah, tidak diterima…
unehelich, unrechtmäßig…
utenomekteskapelig, født utenfor ekteskap, uekte…
незаконнонароджений, незаконний, нелегітимний…
незаконнорожденный, незаконный…
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