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"Illegitimacy" Quotes from Famous Books

... as a possible heir. In spite of her hatred of all conquerors from without, was it likely that she would accept him as a conqueror, in the face of her outraged womanly feelings and her bourgeois horror of illegitimacy? And yet if he were not her son, he was at least her husband's. And perhaps an idea of saving her empire by placing the works in the hands of that heir was dimly rising within her, above all her prejudices and her rancor. But however that might be, her ...

— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola

... parents was a very grievous sin, especially on the part of those who were children of parents who were forbidden to have children. Something worse than illegitimacy was their lot. The penalties of having the eye torn out, or the tongue cut out,(363) show the abhorrence ...

— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns

... the ancestral showing is meagre, and fortunately so, since the case seems to be a bad one beyond reasonable hope. Her name was Nancy Hanks. She was born in Virginia, and was the illegitimate child of one Lucy Hanks.[11] Nor was she the only instance of illegitimacy[12] in a family which, by all accounts, seems to have been very low in the social scale. Mr. Herndon calls them by the dread name of "poor whites," and gives an unappetizing sketch of them.[13] Throughout his pages and those of Lamon there is abundant and disagreeable ...

— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I. • John T. Morse

Words linked to "Illegitimacy" : bastardy, position, status, unlawfulness, legitimacy