card-carrying vs illegitimate

card-carrying

adj
  • Official. 

  • Enrolled as a member of an organization, and having a card to prove it; loyal to that organization or the cause it supports. 

  • Loyal and dedicated to some cause. 

illegitimate

noun
  • A person born to unmarried parents. 

adj
  • Not sanctioned by marriage. 

  • Not correctly deduced. 

  • Not authorized by good usage; not genuine. 

  • Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. 

  • Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards. 

  • Born to unmarried parents. 

  • Not in accordance with the law. 

verb
  • To make illegitimate. 

How often have the words card-carrying and illegitimate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )