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illegitimacy

[ il-i-jit-uh-muh-see ]

noun

plural illegitimacies.
  1. the state or quality of being illegitimate.


illegitimacy

  1. The condition of being born to unmarried parents. It was once considered a mark of disgrace but is generally more accepted now.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of illegitimacy1

First recorded in 1670–80; illegitim(ate) + -acy
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"This is a losing proposition all around. The Judiciary will lose much from the constant intimations of its illegitimacy," he wrote.

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It would be a great result for Putin, who has sought to replace Zelensky since the start of the war and will not even talk directly to him "because of his illegitimacy".

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The dwindling stigmas on illegitimacy and on unmarried sexual partners, legal contraception, more laws supporting women’s access to the workplace — things that some conservatives want to reverse — “made at-fault divorce look more and more off-putting.”

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The election, Mr. Siziba said, had created “a crisis of illegitimacy where the state is turning against its own citizens.”

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If you give people something you hurt them, because it weakens their dignity, it creates illegitimacy as they used to call it, it will make poor people poorer.

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