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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. Clement Attlee

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. Source: Internet

A sixth illegitimate child was born before his marriage. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

He wished to end Johann's cohabitation with Therese Obermayer, a woman who already had an illegitimate child. Source: Internet

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