bastardization C2 Topic:Abstract Ideas Freq #144598 Meanings 1 noun declaring or rendering bastard The annulment of their marriage resulted in the bastardization of their children. 2 noun The combining of separate races in marriage or breeding; miscegenation. This is a basis for a natural, even though slow, process of regeneration, which gradually eliminates racial poisonings as long as a basic stock of racially pure elements is still present and a further bastardization does not take place. 3 noun Any change or neologism in language that is viewed as a degradation. And, hang on a sec, isn't bastardisation a bastardisation of language anyhow? Thesaurus Word family Related forms bastardbastardisebastardisedbastardizebastardized Etymology From bastard + -ization. Topics Abstract Ideas Word Formation & Derivatives External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # bastardization **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** noun **Frequency rank:** 144598 ## Meanings 1. declaring or rendering bastard 2. The combining of separate races in marriage or breeding; miscegenation. 3. Any change or neologism in language that is viewed as a degradation. ## Examples - The annulment of their marriage resulted in the bastardization of their children. - This is a basis for a natural, even though slow, process of regeneration, which gradually eliminates racial poisonings as long as a basic stock of racially pure elements is still present and a further bastardization does not take place. - And, hang on a sec, isn't bastardisation a bastardisation of language anyhow? ## Related Forms - bastard - bastardise - bastardised - bastardize - bastardized ## Etymology From bastard + -ization. ## Topics - Abstract Ideas - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown