illegitimate
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- n the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
- s contrary to or forbidden by law
an illegitimate seizure of power - a of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
- Their illegitimate son, coached by a Florentine painter, became one of the most famous artists of his age, known for the imagination and versatility of his work and patronized by .
- The illegitimate child in Einstein's past did not come to light until more than 30 years after his death, when the first volume of his collected papers finally appeared, in 1987.
- Isabella Eberhardt, who died in 1904 aged only 27, was born in Geneva, the illegitimate daughter of an illegitimate mother.