bastardization

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   declaring or rendering bastard

   The annulment of their marriage resulted in the bastardization of their children.

2. 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. 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?

From bastard + -ization.

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