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Not allowed according to law or official rules - an "illegitimate" government or "illegitimate" power is one that wasn't gained fairly or legally. There's also an older, more formal use: a child born to parents who were not married used to be called "illegitimate." This use is now considered old-fashioned and can sound harsh or , so it's avoided in modern respectful speech.
不合法的、非法的；（舊用法，現已少用且較冒犯）指非婚生的（孩子）。
組成Il- (not) + legitimate (lawful, proper).
同家族的字
- legitimatethe base word - illegitimate is simply the "not" version of legitimate
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
illegitimateadj/ɪlɪˈd͡ʒɪtɪmət/
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Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
- […] it may be impossible to convince them that the illegitimate power which they obtain, by degrading themselves, is a curse […]
- The so-called interstellar space […] has not the properties of ordinary space. It will not conduct sound, nor can a human being move through it. It is therefore illegitimate to measure it in miles.
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Not in accordance with the law.
- […] if things went on at this rate it would be doubtful soon whether ever again he would be able to win another election by methods legitimate or illegitimate.
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Not sanctioned by marriage.
- If we credit the scandal of the former [i.e. his enemies], Artaxerxes sprang from the illegitimate commerce of a tanner’s wife with a common soldier.
- His illegitimate birth deprived him of the influence of a father until perhaps his fifth year […]
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Not sanctioned by marriage.
- an illegitimate child
- I am a bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valour, in every thing illegitimate.
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datedNot sanctioned by marriage.
- She had only to collect her memories, which proved to her that “anybody” regarded the illegitimate children as more rightfully to be looked shy on and deprived of social advantages than illegitimate fathers.
- I heard last night that a what-do-you-call it?—claimant?—has arrived who says Pat Wayne is his illegitimate father.
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Not correctly deduced.
- an illegitimate inference
- […] in natural things we must have recourse […] to experience. And all reasoning that is not supported so, ought to be repudiated, or at least suspected to be illegitimate.
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Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
- an illegitimate word
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesInvolving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
- illegitimate union; illegitimate fertilization
- […] the legitimate unions between the two forms of the above nine species of Primula are much more fertile than the illegitimate unions; although in the latter case pollen was always taken from a distinct plant of the same form.
illegitimatenoun/ɪlɪˈd͡ʒɪtɪmət/
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A person born to unmarried parents.
- Her father and mine was a shameless man and of all his illegitimates I am the most unfortunate and poverty stricken.
illegitimateverb/ɪlɪˈd͡ʒɪtɪmeɪt/
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To make illegitimate.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。