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English
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Etymology
From Middle French abastardir, from Old French a- + bastart (“bastard”).
Pronunciation
Verb
abastardize (third-person singular simple present abastardizes, present participle abastardizing, simple past and past participle abastardized)
- (transitive, obsolete) To stigmatize as a bastard; debase.
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References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abastardize”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.