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What does bastardy mean?

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Noun
  1. (law) The condition of being illegitimate, of being born to an unmarried woman or as the fruit of adultery.
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On the one hand, it exudes the pejorative connotations of bastardy, illegitimacy, hybridization, and decay.
This morning I woke with the niggling bastardy little ghost of last night's red wine vibrating through my head and dehydrating my synapses.
In 1920 it was key in the introduction of the bastardy bill, which compelled fathers of illegitimate children to provide them with financial support.
Huckabee has not extended his disapproval of bastardy and its enablers to Sarah Palin, mother of Bristol and grandmother of little Tripp.
Since it omitted adulterine bastardy, and required a subsequent marriage, this law had quite limited effects.
All these great men use what comes to them from the Other to modify the Self, to bastardize it, for genius wants bastardy.

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