bastardization

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The making of a bastard or bastards; Having children out of wedlock or destroying the legitimacy of children's paternity.
2. noun The creation of offspring from two different species; cross-breeding.
3. noun The combining of separate races in marriage or breeding; miscegenation.
4. noun Any change or neologism in language that is viewed as a degradation.
5. noun The creation of an inferior copy or version; corruption, degradation, or debasement.
6. noun Activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group.

Similar words

bastardisation bastardry illegitimation bar sinister imbastardizing misbegotten bend sinister miscome misbirth prolicide

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