Illegitimate Definition

ĭlĭ-jĭtə-mĭt
adjective
Not in keeping with accepted usage.
Webster's New World
Contrary to law or rules; illegal; unlawful.
Webster's New World
Not valid or defensible.
Their reasons for missing school are illegitimate.
American Heritage Medicine
Incorrectly deduced: not logical.
An illegitimate conclusion.
Webster's New World
Born of parents not married to each other.
Webster's New World
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Illegitimate Sentence Examples

  • The cousin had to be the illegitimate daughter of the old man.

  • Experiment showed that legitimate unions yield a larger quantity of seed than illegitimate.

  • He died in 1458, leaving Naples t le Mo to his illegitimate son Ferdinand I.

  • He seems, in addition, to have compromised his position with the grandducal family by the imprudent candour with which he condemned a machine for clearing the port of Leghorn, invented by Giovanni de' Medici, an illegitimate son of Cosmo I.

  • John averted the danger by arranging a marriage between his son Henry and Constance, the eldest daughter of John of Gaunt, an alliance which united the two equally illegitimate lines representing Alphonso XI., and so closed the dispute as to the succession.

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