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illegitimate child

ˌɪlɪˈʤɪtəmɪt ʧaɪld
WordNet
  1. (n) illegitimate child
    the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
Quotations
Clement Attlee
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
Clement Attlee
Usage in the news

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Illegitimate Son Born Same Week as His and Maria Shriver's Youngest Child. foxnews.com

Her father, Michael Lohan, fathered an illegitimate child in 1995 while married to Dina Lohan. mercurynews.com

And discovering her family history is blighted by child labor and an illegitimate birth. hcu870.com

The couple's marriage was in question after the former governor admitted to fathering an illegitimate child with a former household staff member. fox44.com

Usage in literature

An illegitimate child is almost unknown in the settlements. "Acadia" by Frederic S. Cozzens

Almost a necessary presumption is, that, if she existed, she was an illegitimate child. "Sir Walter Ralegh" by William Stebbing

He is not, and cannot make himself, an illegitimate child! "A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2" by George Saintsbury

But, as it is, this child isn't, strictly speaking, illegitimate. "The Beloved Woman" by Kathleen Norris

But a woman is not allowed to prove that a child born in wedlock is illegitimate. "Home Life in Germany" by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

Do you think me an illegitimate child? "The O'Ruddy" by Stephen Crane

Alice R., at the age of 25, was much troubled by worrying over her financial difficulties and the shame of an illegitimate child. "Benign Stupors" by August Hoch

She had an illegitimate child and two others. "New Worlds For Old" by Herbert George Wells

The illegitimate child has, in such cases, all the rights of children born in wedlock. "Woman under socialism" by August Bebel

Now she was only a poor old woman left alone with an illegitimate child. "Ditte: Girl Alive!" by Martin Andersen Nexo

Usage in poetry
Thou from thy hopeless heart that love shalt cast--
That child of earth, false, illegitimate:
Shalt fling it to the night and wintry blast--
Out in the storm--there let it find its fate.