Crossword-Solution: LEGITIMATIZE 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 24

Our marriage would legitimatize this poor boy, who as yet knows nothing of his position.” The look the father threw upon the lad explained the life of these two beings, abandoned, or voluntarily isolated; they were all in all to each other, like two compatriots adrift upon a desert.

For, in those two lovers, the finest qualities of sense and soul seemed exactly to balance each other, and heaven had bestowed on them the rarest beauty of form, and the most adorable excellence of heart, as if to legitimatize the irresistible attraction which drew and bound them together.

She bore him children--such beautiful children!--whom he rarely acknowledged, and was never asked to legitimatize;--and she did not ask perpetual affection notwithstanding,--regarded the relation as a necessarily temporary one, to be sooner or later dissolved by the marriage of her children's father.

For that you must legitimatize her birth; for that, your highness, you must espouse the Countess M'Gregor." "Never--never! It would be to reward perjury, selfishness and the mad ambition of this unnatural mother.

You recollect that last year, during our journey on the banks of the Rhine, we were informed that the prince had found in France, and had married _in extremis_, the Countess M'Gregor, in order to legitimatize the birth of a daughter, whom he had by her in consequence of an early secret marriage, which was afterward broken, from some illegality in the ceremony, and because it had been contracted against the will of the reigning grand duke.