A girl who has an illegitimate childis condemned, without any inquiry as to whether she is a decent person or not.
In filling up the certificate required for her removal to the asylum, it transpired that many years ago she had had an affair which terminated; her lover left her with an illegitimate child.
As a widow she had secretly borne to another lover an illegitimate child, and finally she had had an unnatural relationship with her own brother (who was later on poisoned).
On coming to her childless husband Mary Wollstonecraft brought anillegitimate child in her arms.
A further instance is supplied by relief applied for by the mother of an illegitimate child who is entitled to periodical payments from the putative father.
The clauses which laid the burden of supporting an illegitimate child on the mother, as if she had been a widow, gave rise to much discussion.
Maillefort, overcome with grief and chagrin, could no longer doubt that this orphan, whose name and place of abode were alike unknown to him, was Madame de Beaumesnil's illegitimate child.
Maillefort was convinced that the person in question was indeed Madame de Beaumesnil's illegitimate child.
The father of an illegitimate child--rendered illegitimate by church canons--is held as both morally and legally irresponsible for his fatherhood.
Only in case of the birth of an illegitimate child is she treated as a responsible being, and then only that discomfort and punishment may fall upon her.
According to present law the position of an illegitimate person heraldically is based upon the common law of the country, which practically declares that an illegitimate childhas no name, no parentage, and no relations.
Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child.
Putative father, one who is presumed to be the father of an illegitimate child; the supposed father.
Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child.
He may be giving his patient a venereal disease; he may be giving the anxieties and responsibilities of an illegitimate child; the prescriber is quite in the dark.
In France, indeed, and in the legal codes which follow the French example, it is not legally permitted to inquire into the paternity of an illegitimate child.
He had committed more than one murder, but was tried for the death of an illegitimate child of which he was the father.
A very strange order was made in the same county during the Commonwealth, and it was to the effect that every woman who had been the mother of an illegitimate child, and had not been previously punished, be committed for trial.
Why am I not a humpback, or diseased in some way, or hideous, if I am an illegitimate child?
Am I to say to every one: 'I am an illegitimate child, and therefore I am as black as the devil himself?
Surely you do not suggest she is an illegitimate child," said his wife, with some horror.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "illegitimate child" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
