Bastardize vs Imbastardize - What's the difference?
bastardize | imbastardize |
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 bastardize and imbastardize
is that bastardize is to claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate while imbastardize is (obsolete|transitive) to bastardize; to debase.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)