illegitimation

English

Noun

illegitimation (countable and uncountable, plural illegitimations)

1. (obsolete) The act of making illegitimate; bastardization.
2. (obsolete) The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy.
   • 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, […]:

     Gardiner had performed his promise to the queen of getting her illegitimation taken off.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “illegitimation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)