While this assumption flew in the face of scientific evidence, it did have the advantage of ensuring that the children of married women could not be bastardized.
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Richard is effectively illegitimate, the nature of his crime aligning him with those age-old tropes that identify both the product and producer of counterfeiting as bastardized.
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In some sections of the engineering industry, producers are having tobastardizetheir production because they are forced to improvise with their present equipment to meet the competition from abroad.
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He spent the first years of his reign attempting to have this marriage annulled and his half-siblings bastardized.
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