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Illegitimately

adverb
1.
In a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom.  Synonym: illicitly.
2.
Of biological parents not married to each other.  Synonym: out of wedlock.






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"Illegitimately" Quotes from Famous Books



... mistaken association of contiguous ideas produces contagious magic. The principles of association are excellent in themselves, and indeed absolutely essential to the working of the human mind. Legitimately applied they yield science; illegitimately applied they yield magic, the bastard sister of science. It is therefore a truism, almost a tautology, to say that all magic is necessarily false and barren; for were it ever to become true and fruitful, it would no longer be magic ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer

... point of view, must here fall into disagreement with me. This essay upholding free divorce, and the three that follow, the first one recommending regulation and firm action in suppressing prostitution as the only way to stay the spread of venereal diseases; the second essay on the illegitimately born child, where I differ in one important matter from the accepted view of what is chiefly needed to protect these unhappy children; and, even more, the proposal I make in the last essay, where I plead for an open recognition of honorable ...
— Women's Wild Oats - Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards • C. Gasquoine Hartley



Words linked to "Illegitimately" :   licitly, legitimately, illegitimate



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