English Explanatory Dictionary

bastardism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The condition of being born out of wedlock; bastardy.
  2. A tendency to produce bastards; lack of chastity.
  3. Racial impurity; that state or quality of being mixed-race.
  4. Sexual reproduction involving different species.
  5. An unnatural combination; a mixture of things that do not belong together.
  6. Ideological concern with whether someone is related by blood.
  7. An act or quality of being bastardly; contemptibleness, cruelty, or lack of proper behavior.

Word forms

bastardism bastardisms

Etymology

From bastard + -ism.

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