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Dastardy vs Bastardy - What's the difference?

dastardy | bastardy |

As nouns the difference between dastardy and bastardy

is that dastardy is base timidity; cowardliness while bastardy is (legal) the condition of being illegitimate, of being born to an unmarried woman or as the fruit of adultery.

dastardy

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • base timidity; cowardliness
    • (Webster 1913)

    bastardy

    English

    Noun

  • (legal) The condition of being illegitimate, of being born to an unmarried woman or as the fruit of adultery.
  • * Shakespeare, Richard III , .
    • Go, after, after, cousin Buckingham.
    The Mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post:—
    There, at your meet'st advantage of the time,
    Infer the bastardy of Edward's children:
    Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen,
    Only for saying he would make his son
    Heir to the crown;—meaning, indeed, his house,
    Which, by the sign thereof, was termed so.

    Related terms

    * bastard

    Derived terms

    * bastardy bond