Definition of Bastardies

1. Noun. (plural of bastardy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bastardies

1. bastardy [n] - See also: bastardy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastardies

bastard pennyroyal
bastard pimpernel
bastard ridley
bastard sugar
bastard sword
bastard swords
bastard title
bastard toadflax
bastard trumpeter
bastard trumpeters
bastard turtle
bastard wing
bastard wings
bastard yellowwood
bastarda
bastardies (current term)
bastarding
bastardisation
bastardisations
bastardise
bastardised
bastardiser
bastardisers
bastardises
bastardising
bastardism
bastardization
bastardizations
bastardize
bastardized

Literary usage of Bastardies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"But now the frendes of Hartford do answere to al these bastardies, that for the first two pretended by the marriages of the two Dukes of Suffolk, ..."

2. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Sir Egerton Brydges (1808)
"... to a! these bastardies, that for the first two pretended by the marriages of the two Dukes of Suffolk, they saye that cither the causes might be such, ..."

3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"And if we observed the great crosses many times God permits in great families, as discontent in marriages, artificial or natural bastardies, a society of ..."

4. Works by James Fenimore Cooper (1892)
"... six descents pure—three bastardies—eleven descents pure—a certainty—a suspicion—unknown. Decree as of record ; it is found that the advantage is on the ..."

5. The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq.: With Memoirs of His Life and by Edward Gibbon, John Baker Holroyd Sheffield (1837)
"... II. and the sole heiress of the house of Swabia ; a title incontrovertible, had it been pure ; but Ferdinand's blood was defiled liv two bastardies, ..."

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