Illegitimacy Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭlĭ-jĭtə-mə-sē
The state or quality of being illegal
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. illegality
  2. illicitness
  3. unlawfulness
The condition of being of illegitimate birth
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bastardy
  2. illegitimateness
  3. bastardism
  4. illegitimation
  5. bar-sinister
Antonyms:
  1. legitimacy

Words Related to Illegitimacy

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Illegitimacy Sentence Examples

  • The percentage of illegitimacy is about 7.

  • Deliverance from the pantheistic conception of the universe comes through the recognition of the central place occupied by thought and purpose in the actual world, and, as a consequence of this, of the illegitimacy of the abstraction whereby material energy is taken for the ultimate reality.

  • A year later the child was placed under the protection of King Inge, after whose death in 1217 he was chosen king; though until 1223 the church refused to recognize him, on the ground of illegitimacy, and the Pope's dispensation for his coronation was not gained until much later.

  • Illegitimacy is highest in Bavaria (about 15%), Berlin (14%), and over 12% in Saxony, MecklenburgSchwerin and Saxe-Meiningen.

  • The percentage of illegitimacy is high as a whole, although in some of the rural districts it is very low.

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