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Definition of Illegitimately

1. Adverb. In a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom. "He acted illegitimately when he increased the rent fourfold"

2. Adverb. Of biological parents not married to each other. "This child was born illegitimately"

Definition of Illegitimately

1. adv. In a illegitimate manner; unlawfully.

Definition of Illegitimately

1. Adverb. In an illegitimate manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Illegitimately

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Illegitimately

illegalized illegalizes illegalizing illegally illegalness illegals illegibilities illegibility illegible illegibly

illegitimacies illegitimacy illegitimate illegitimate child illegitimate enterprise illegitimately (current term) illegitimation illegitimations illegitimatize illegitimatized

illegitimatizes illegitimatizing illeism illeist iller illest illeviable illfavoured illiad illiads

Literary usage of Illegitimately

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

1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"Whether this degraded Saria tribe may be descended illegitimately from these, it is useless to enquire. The Aspa or Aswa race is decidedly of ..."

2. Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the by James Ward (1903)
"... THEORY LECTURE II ABSTRACT DYNAMICS The demurrer of modern scientific thought, though illegitimately, yet practically, forecloses theistic inquiries. ..."

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