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illegitimations

illegitimations is the plural of illegitimation.

Meaning of illegitimation

Noun

illegitimation (countable and uncountable, plural illegitimations)

  1. (obsolete) The act of making illegitimate; illegitimization; bastardization.
  2. (obsolete) The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy.
    • Gardiner had performed his promise to the queen of getting her illegitimation taken off.1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]

Questions about illegitimations

What is illegitimations the plural of?
Illegitimations is the plural of illegitimation.

Words near illegitimations in the dictionary

  1. illegitimately
  2. illegitimateness
  3. illegitimates
  4. illegitimating
  5. illegitimation
  6. illegitimations
  7. illegitimatize
  8. illegitimatized
  9. illegitimatizes
  10. illegitimatizing
  11. illegitimise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: illegitimations (page history and authors); illegitimation (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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