Noun: illegitimate
| Singular | illegitimate |
| Plural | illegitimates |
Sample Sentences
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Her father and mine was a shameless man and of all his illegitimates I am the most unfortunate and poverty stricken. [1966, Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, New York: Norton, Part 2, p. 96:]
Nouns inflected like illegitimate
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First attested in 1536, from Latin illēgitimus, most likely an adapted borrowing of Middle French illegitime, equivalent to il- + legitimate, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). See: Latin Nouns '
illēgitimus'.