legitimate offspring

collocation in English

meaningsoflegitimateandoffspring

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legitimate
adjective
uk
/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mət/us
/ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mət/
allowed ...
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offspring
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɒf.sprɪŋ/us
/ˈɑːf.sprɪŋ/
the young of ...
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(Definition oflegitimateandoffspringfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegitimate offspring

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In cases where a son or daughter died, theirlegitimateoffspringwere also entitled to this share of the inheritance.
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Freedom of beliefs is thelegitimateoffspringof epistemological falsifiability.
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Under that, only fathers can transmit, and they can only transmit in foreign countries to theirlegitimateoffspring.
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They do not take any means to inform the world that he really is theirlegitimateoffspring.
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They want, therefore, to put the illegitimate offspring in the same position as thelegitimateoffspring, the legitimised child and the adopted child.
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There is no reason why claims of that kind should be limited tolegitimateoffspring.
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The classic definition restricted use of the category specifically to thelegitimateoffspringborn to reigning monarchs after they ascended to the throne.
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However, this relationship could often be strained when a mistress gave birth to a son that the king often loved more than his ownlegitimateoffspring.
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Henry never married and hence left nolegitimateoffspring.
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Marriage may result, for example, in a union between a man and a woman such that children born to the woman are the recognizedlegitimateoffspringof both partners.
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William died young after he fell from a horse while hunting, and left nolegitimateoffspring.
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Instead, they are removed from their titles and honors, which had been handed the honor, dignity and services thereof, which correspond to theirlegitimateoffspringif they exist.
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