illegitimateil‧le‧git‧i‧mate /ˌɪləˈdʒɪtəmət◂/ adjective 
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his illegitimate son2not allowed or acceptable according to rules or agreements OPP legitimate: a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate trade—illegitimately adverb—illegitimacy noun [uncountable]
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- an illegitimate child
- Many of these insurance claims are illegitimate.
- In 1960, 2 percent of white births and 22 percent of black births were illegitimate.
- In a Newcastle study, more than 70 percent of first illegitimate pregnancies were followed by another.
- In the mid-1980s, about one-third of first births are illegitimate as was discussed in chapter 3.
- John F.. Kennedy won by a hair and under questionable circumstances, yet his presidency was never considered illegitimate.
- Trying artificially to separate politics and management, or treat the former as an illegitimate intrusion, is naive.
- We're not peppering the world with illegitimate children.
- We refer, of course, to the existence of her illegitimate son.
- Yet he made no attempt to harass the driver into any illegitimate speed.
THESAURUS► illegal
Collocations forbidden by law: · It is illegal to sell tobacco to children under 16.· illegal immigrants· He was carrying an illegal weapon.
► be against the law to be illegal. This phrase is very commonly used in everyday English, instead of saying that something is illegal: · Driving a car without insurance is against the law.· It’s against the law to hit a child.
► unlawful illegal – a rather formal word, which is used especially when this particular action is considered to be illegal, although there are some situations where such actions can be legal: · The judges said that the strike was unlawful.· The money was obtained by unlawful means.· a verdict of unlawful killing
► illicit illicit activities or goods are illegal and usually kept secret: · Marijuana remains the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States.· the illicit trade in stolen cattle
► illegitimate not allowed or acceptable according to rules or agreements: · the illegitimate use of power· The election results were declared to be illegitimate.· illegitimate share trading
► unconstitutional not allowed by a country’s constitution (=set of rules and principles by which a country is governed): · The court ruled that the new law was unconstitutional.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► an illegitimate baby
1born to parents who are not married OPP legitimate: (=born to an unmarried mother)· The number of illegitimate babies is rising.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► as· By defining the conquest as the origin story, and then by portraying it as illegitimate, Royce took a considerable risk.
NOUN► birth· Between 1977 and 1987 illegitimate births increased from 55,400 to 158,400; 76 percent of this increase was in jointly registered births.· We are beginning to see what happens when Church teaching is ignored: illegitimate births, suicide, depression, divorce.· It also ranks highly in terms of total fertility, illegitimate births and the number of elderly people.· Symkyn's father-in-law is the village parson, which means, of course, that Symkyn's wife is of illegitimate birth.· It is unmarried women in their late 20s who have the highest risk of illegitimate birth.· In the early 1970s the normal response to a pre-marital conception was marriage; abortion or illegitimate birth were less favoured alternatives.· In the 1980s abortion or illegitimate birth have been the most likely outcomes.
► child· Though not under a legal liability to maintain his illegitimate child, the father is under a moral duty to do so.· Men separated from their women father illegitimate children.· If a widow had an illegitimate child, outdoor relief was likely to be stopped altogether.· Also patron of illegitimate children and medical social workers.· Celie's loss is that of her illegitimate children.· Lately he had taken an interest in a younger woman who had borne an illegitimate child and been abandoned by her lover.· The presence of an illegitimate child to that elder brother had been kept a dark secret.· When he died aged 85, his young mistress and 10 illegitimate children inherited his money.
► daughter· During that time Clint openly lived with blonde Sondra and fathered an illegitimate daughter Kimber in 1964.· He died in 1574, leaving the property to his illegitimate daughter Hester, who married Lord Wooton.· During the interview, he also addressed allegations that he has an illegitimate daughter.· Francis's illegitimate daughter, Anna, was there with her boyfriend.· In 1994 the magazine published pictures of President Franc ois Mitterrand's illegitimate daughter.· She too had brought an illegitimate daughter to the union, and died giving birth to Godwin's own daughter Mary.· Harry's oblique reappearance comes in the form of his illegitimate daughter Annabelle.
► son· A few days after they had learnt that Haroun was the illegitimate son of Jazali an extraordinary thing had happened.· He also had an illegitimate son, Chrysippus.· His illegitimate son Cesare had difficulty in being accepted for the priesthood until granted dispensation.· Another uncle, Ignacio, offers to take Manuel Gustavo on as his own illegitimate son.· The illegitimate son of a maidservant, Frank Roberts was born at Edinburgh in 1915.· We refer, of course, to the existence of her illegitimate son.· He never married, but had an illegitimate son, Hezekiah Knowles.· Some of them pretend they're the illegitimate sons of noblemen, and some of them pretend some one else did the murder.
his illegitimate son2not allowed or acceptable according to rules or agreements OPP legitimate: a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate trade—illegitimately adverb—illegitimacy noun [uncountable]