Definition of Legitimates. Meaning of Legitimates. Synonyms of Legitimates

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Definition of Legitimates

Legitimate
Legitimate Le*git"i*mate (-m[asl]t), a. [LL. legitimatus, p. p. of legitimare to legitimate, fr. L. legitimus legitimate. See Legal.] 1. Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. 2. Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock. 3. Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions. 4. Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors. Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic. --Macaulay. 5. Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
Legitimate
Legitimate Le*git"i*mate (-m[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Legitimated (-m[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Legitimating (-m[=a]`t[i^]ng).] To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child. To enact a statute of that which he dares not seem to approve, even to legitimate vice. --Milton.

Meaning of Legitimates from wikipedia

- Legitimation, legitimization (US), or legitimisation (UK) is the act of providing legitimacy. Legitimation in the social sciences refers to the process...
- Legitimation crisis refers to a decline in the confidence of administrative functions, institutions, or leadership. The term was first introduced in 1973...
- The doctrine of legitimate expectation was first developed in English law as a ground of judicial review in administrative law to protect a procedural...
- A legitimating ideology, a term used by sociologists C. Wright Mills and others, refers generally to any ideology which is used to legitimate the actions...
- performances of such theatre were termed legitimate drama, while the abbreviation the legitimate refers to legitimate theatre or drama and legit is a noun...
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- A legitimate military target is an object, structure, individual, or entity that is considered to be a valid target for attack by belligerent forces according...
- The Legitimation of Power by David Beetham is a famous political theory text. The book examines the legitimation of power as an essential issue for social...
- Legitimation of nobility — the process of verifying nobility before the heraldry office to officially confirm nobility. In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
- The Legitimation League was an English advocacy organisation in the 1890s, which campaigned for the legitimation of illegitimate children and free love...