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Legitimate   /lədʒˈɪtəmət/   Listen
Legitimate

adjective
1.
Of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful.  Antonym: illegitimate.
2.
Based on known statements or events or conditions.  Synonym: logical.
3.
In accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles.
4.
Authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law.  Synonyms: lawful, licit.
verb
(past & past part. legitimated; pres. part. legitimating)
1.
Make legal.  Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize.  Antonyms: criminalise, criminalize, outlaw.
2.
Show or affirm to be just and legitimate.
3.
Make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone).





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"Legitimate" Quotes from Famous Books



... female. The peculiarity of her situation, without a friend in the wide world except himself; and his days, in all probability, numbered to that period at which she would most require an adviser—that period, when the heart rebels against the head and too often overthrows the legitimate dynasty of reason, determined him to give a masculine character to her education, as most likely to prove the surest safeguard through ...
— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat
... your MS. with much interest, has suggested, as telling in the right direction, but whether sufficient is another question, that many more illegitimate children are murdered and concealed shortly after birth, than in the case of legitimate children; and as many more males than females die during the first few days of life, the census of illegitimate children practically applies to an older age than with legitimate children, and would thus slightly reduce the excess of males. This might possibly be worth consideration. ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin
... and a queen upon the board. It was, indeed, worse than this,—for the adversary had appropriated to his own use the castles and the queen of the unhappy vanquished one. This Church Reform was the legitimate property of the Liberals, and had not been as yet used by them only because they had felt it right to keep in the background for some future great occasion so great and so valuable a piece of ordnance. It was theirs so safely that they could afford to bide their time. And then,—so ...
— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope
... its readers that in telling the story of Amalgamated I am violating no confidence, nor in any way encroaching upon the niceties of that business code which is, and should be, the foundation of all legitimate financial dealings, nor in any way misusing knowledge which, if acquired under other circumstances, might ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson
... this bloody outbreak with all the dignity of legitimate warfare was ridiculous, and the ...
— The River of Darkness - Under Africa • William Murray Graydon


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