Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective born in wedlock; legitimate; enjoying full filial rights; not illegitimate; -- of people.
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- adjective born in wedlock; enjoying full filial rights
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Examples
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For what were the puritans but the lawfully-begotten children of the so called reformation, whose spirit they inherited, and in whose footsteps they so closely followed?
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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For what were the puritans but the lawfully-begotten children of the so called reformation, whose spirit they inherited, and in whose footsteps they so closely followed?
St. George and St. Michael Volume I George MacDonald 1864
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What is called the "legitimate drama" has always found in pantomime just such a rival and a relative as Gloucester's lawfully-begotten son
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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I replied, 'As I am a lawfully-begotten child and a well-born, I will not name aught of this nor denounce you! "
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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