0 the condition of being not legal or fair:
The country’s problem has been the illegitimacy of its own government.
1 the state of being born of parents not married to each other:
A whistleblower alleged the illegitimacy of the claimed “marketing” payments.
Today's antics highlighted the illegitimacy of a hastily crafted process without established precedent or established rules.
By the 1980s, the illegitimacy of this presumption had become widely recognised.
I have feelings about the illegitimacy of the presidency.
Sealing adoptees' birth certificates was seen as a way to protect children born outside of marriage from the stigma of illegitimacy.
It is unclear why illegitimacy rates began rising rapidly four decades ago.
You might be alerted to illegitimacy by a blank space where a father's name should be on a birth certificate.
The stigma of illegitimacy was harsh and the usual practice, where possible, was for the mother to go away to have her child.
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