adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an illegitimate baby (= born to an unmarried mother )
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The number of illegitimate babies is rising.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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By defining the conquest as the origin story, and then by portraying it as illegitimate , Royce took a considerable risk.
■ NOUN
birth
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Between 1977 and 1987 illegitimate births increased from 55,400 to 158,400; 76 percent of this increase was in jointly registered births.
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We are beginning to see what happens when Church teaching is ignored: illegitimate births , suicide, depression, divorce.
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It also ranks highly in terms of total fertility, illegitimate births and the number of elderly people.
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Symkyn's father-in-law is the village parson, which means, of course, that Symkyn's wife is of illegitimate birth .
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It is unmarried women in their late 20s who have the highest risk of illegitimate birth .
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In the early 1970s the normal response to a pre-marital conception was marriage; abortion or illegitimate birth were less favoured alternatives.
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In the 1980s abortion or illegitimate birth have been the most likely outcomes.
child
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Though not under a legal liability to maintain his illegitimate child , the father is under a moral duty to do so.
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Men separated from their women father illegitimate children .
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If a widow had an illegitimate child , outdoor relief was likely to be stopped altogether.
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Also patron of illegitimate children and medical social workers.
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Celie's loss is that of her illegitimate children .
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Lately he had taken an interest in a younger woman who had borne an illegitimate child and been abandoned by her lover.
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The presence of an illegitimate child to that elder brother had been kept a dark secret.
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When he died aged 85, his young mistress and 10 illegitimate children inherited his money.
daughter
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During that time Clint openly lived with blonde Sondra and fathered an illegitimate daughter Kimber in 1964.
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He died in 1574, leaving the property to his illegitimate daughter Hester, who married Lord Wooton.
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During the interview, he also addressed allegations that he has an illegitimate daughter .
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Francis's illegitimate daughter , Anna, was there with her boyfriend.
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In 1994 the magazine published pictures of President Franc ois Mitterrand's illegitimate daughter .
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She too had brought an illegitimate daughter to the union, and died giving birth to Godwin's own daughter Mary.
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Harry's oblique reappearance comes in the form of his illegitimate daughter Annabelle.
son
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A few days after they had learnt that Haroun was the illegitimate son of Jazali an extraordinary thing had happened.
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He also had an illegitimate son , Chrysippus.
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His illegitimate son Cesare had difficulty in being accepted for the priesthood until granted dispensation.
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Another uncle, Ignacio, offers to take Manuel Gustavo on as his own illegitimate son .
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The illegitimate son of a maidservant, Frank Roberts was born at Edinburgh in 1915.
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We refer, of course, to the existence of her illegitimate son .
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He never married, but had an illegitimate son , Hezekiah Knowles.
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Some of them pretend they're the illegitimate sons of noblemen, and some of them pretend some one else did the murder.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an illegitimate child
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Many of these insurance claims are illegitimate .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In 1960, 2 percent of white births and 22 percent of black births were illegitimate .
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In a Newcastle study, more than 70 percent of first illegitimate pregnancies were followed by another.
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In the mid-1980s, about one-third of first births are illegitimate as was discussed in chapter 3.
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John F.. Kennedy won by a hair and under questionable circumstances, yet his presidency was never considered illegitimate .
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Trying artificially to separate politics and management, or treat the former as an illegitimate intrusion, is naive.
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We're not peppering the world with illegitimate children.
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We refer, of course, to the existence of her illegitimate son.
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Yet he made no attempt to harass the driver into any illegitimate speed.