illegitimate child
Noun
Meaning
the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
According to a new edition of Severn's letters and memoirs, Severn fathered an illegitimate child named Henry (b. 31 Aug 1819) about a year before leaving England for Italy.
A sixth illegitimate child was born before his marriage.
Communist attempt to humiliate John Paul II In 1983 Poland's Communist government unsuccessfully tried to humiliate John Paul II by falsely saying he had fathered an illegitimate child.
HA Comm. 1.2; Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 119. The biographer relates the scurrilous (and, in the judgment of Anthony Birley, untrue) rumor that Commodus was an illegitimate child born of a union between Faustina and a gladiator.
He wished to end Johann's cohabitation with Therese Obermayer, a woman who already had an illegitimate child.