different between wedlock vs bastardize

English

Etymology

From Middle English wedlok, wedlocke (“wedlock, marriage, matrimony”), from Old English wedl?c (“marriage vow, pledge, plighted troth, wedlock”); synchronically analyzable as wed +? -lock.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?d.l?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

wedlock (countable and uncountable, plural wedlocks)

1. The state of being married.

   Synonyms: matrimony, marriage

2. (obsolete) A wife; a married woman.
   • 1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster:

     Which of these is thy Wedlock, Menelaus? thy Hellen? thy Lucrece? that we may do her Honour; mad Boy?

Translations

Translations

Derived terms

• bedlock
• out of wedlock

Related terms

• bridelock

English

Alternative forms

• bastardise

Etymology

bastard +? -ize

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bæst?da?z/

Verb

bastardize (third-person singular simple present bastardizes, present participle bastardizing, simple past and past participle bastardized)

1. To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.
   • 1768, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:

     Our law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if it be born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock.

2. To reduce from a higher to a lower state, such as by removing refined elements or introducing debased elements; to debase.
   • 2017, Douglas Charles Kane, Beren and Lúthien (2017) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, in Journal of Tolkien Research, Volume 4, Issue 2, Article 5,

     The third potential audience is the general public at large, who either never has read any of Tolkien’s books or perhaps read The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit long ago, but whose knowledge about Tolkien’s created secondary universe comes, if at all, mostly from seeing Peter Jackson’s bastardized adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit.

3. To beget out of wedlock.

Synonyms

• (introduce debased elements into): mongrelize