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  • adjective Not legalized.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ legalized

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Examples

  • To him womanhood is summed up in one of its attributes – wifehood, or its unlegalized equivalent.

    Marriage as a Trade 1909

  • Let me explain, then, that by marriage, in this connection, I mean not only the estate of matrimony, but its unlegalized equivalent.

    Marriage as a Trade 1909

  • Hardin for whom Hardin County was named; that Nancy Hanks was herself the victim of unlegalized motherhood, the natural daughter of an aristocratic, wealthy, and well-educated Virginia planter, and that this accounted for many of her son's characteristics.

    The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him 1878

  • In some localities, particularly in Kentucky and South Carolina, the rumor is definite and persistent that the President was not the son of Thomas Lincoln, the illiterate and thriftless, but of one Colonel Hardin for whom Hardin County was named; that Nancy Hanks was herself the victim of unlegalized motherhood, the natural daughter of an aristocratic, wealthy, and well-educated Virginia planter, and that this accounted for many of her son's characteristics.

    The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln Browne, Francis F 1913

  • To the second ... to live in a state of unlegalized marriage defileth not a man, nor woman. "

    The Red Conspiracy Joseph J. Mereto

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