Abastardize vs Bastardize - What's the difference?
abastardize | bastardize |
(obsolete) To stigmatize as a bastard; debase.
To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.
To reduce from a higher to a lower state; to debase.
To introduce debased elements into.
To beget out of wedlock.
As verbs the difference between abastardize and bastardize
is that abastardize is (obsolete) to stigmatize as a bastard; debase while bastardize is to claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.abastardize
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Alternative forms
* abastardise (UK)Verb
(en-verb)References
bastardize
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Alternative forms
*bastardiseVerb
(bastardiz)- The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. — Blackstone.
- (Shakespeare)
