bastardism

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The condition of being born out of wedlock

   The condition of being born out of wedlock; bastardy.

   • So much in those days for royal bastardism.
2. 2

   A tendency to produce bastards

   A tendency to produce bastards; lack of chastity.

   • A full one-third, and oftentimes more, is expended upon officials and in defraying establishment charges; the remainder is wasted upon the most worthless and vicious of the population, and in sustaining bastardism.
   • These included "Bastardism", the alleged tendency among the French of begetting illegitimate children, with which they might be expected to swamp Britain and "to weaken the State" itself.
   • As has been said before, it is only in that portion of Constantinople which is under Christian civilization that bastardism, street immorality, and adultery prevail.
3. 3

   Racial impurity

   Racial impurity; that state or quality of being mixed-race.

   • We may well shudder in thinking of the results of such marriages from the triple view of criminality, bastardism of the race, and wretched homes.
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   1. 4

      Sexual reproduction involving different species.

      • It is generally well known that all efforts of bastardism to propagate are sterile, and we need not witness the efforts of the horse and mule trying to create a new and better species.
      • That the seed is not responsible seems certain, since when "bastardism " does occur among swedes, the appearance of the plant differs markedly from that of one affected with cabbage-top.
      • Focke gave a remarkable history of plant bastardism and described Mendel's experiments .
   2. 5

      An unnatural combination

      An unnatural combination; a mixture of things that do not belong together.

      • The innovations and bastardisms wrought into Masonry since 1844, by that unfortunate book, exceed, when summed up, the innovations and bastardisms from all other sources united.
   3. 6

      Ideological concern with whether someone is related by blood.

      • Bastardism is everywhere. In the Tiny Tears commercial a three-year-old tells her dolly not to cry because "she's her very own baby"? Don't you see? It's Bloodspeak, right in the language: Comes by it honestly.
      • You could say that bastardism is my ideology, even though María Galindo despises the notion of ideology because its authoritarian and academic and, therefore, embedded in the hierarchical structures of patriarchy.
   4. 7

      An act or quality of being bastardly

      An act or quality of being bastardly; contemptibleness, cruelty, or lack of proper behavior.

      • By God, indeed; I cannot stand your bastardism, Jacques,” and I took my blanket in hand, dashed from the room, and made my bed in the hallway.
      • His worldview has several euphemistic aliases— "rugged individualism," "egoism," or "social Darwinism," to name a few— though in his case, "pitiless, selfish bastardism” may be more accurate.
      • Bastardism, as an approach, had already been applied with some success. Major Buckley was notably scary.

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