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bastardies

bastardies is the plural of bastardy.

Meaning of bastardy

Noun

bastardy (countable and uncountable, plural bastardies)

  1. The condition of being illegitimate, of being born to an unmarried woman and man or as the fruit of adultery.
    • Go, after, after, cousin Buckingham.
      The Mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post:—
      There, at your meet'st advantage of the time,
      Infer the bastardy of Edward's children:
      Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen,
      Only for saying he would make his son
      Heir to the crown;—meaning, indeed, his...c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Questions about bastardies

What is bastardies the plural of?
Bastardies is the plural of bastardy.

Words near bastardies in the dictionary

  1. bastarded
  2. bastardess
  3. bastardesses
  4. bastardhood
  5. Bastardi
  6. bastardies
  7. bastarding
  8. bastardisation
  9. bastardisations
  10. bastardise
  11. bastardised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bastardies (page history and authors); bastardy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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