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Legitimate   /lədʒˈɪtəmət/   Listen
adjective
Legitimate  adj.  
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."
5.
Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.



verb
Legitimate  v. t.  (past & past part. legitimated; pres. part. legitimating)  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."






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"Legitimate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Paul said: "The commutation of sentences acknowledges them to be unjust and arbitrary. The attempt to suppress legitimate propaganda has failed. ...
— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens

... them easily. Perceiving these things the Pelasgians considered the matter; and when they took counsel together, a fear came over them and they thought, if the boys were indeed resolved now to help one another against the sons of the legitimate wives, and were endeavouring already from the first to have authority over them, what would they do when they were grown up to be men? Then they determined to put to death the sons of the Athenian women, and this they actually did; and in addition to ...
— The History Of Herodotus - Volume 2 (of 2) • Herodotus

... willingly became slaves, and are punished in more ways than one. They first create the tyrants—for tyrants are the creatures of the people they sway, and never make themselves; they next drive into banishment their more legitimate rulers; and the consequence, in the third place, is, that they make enemies of those whom they exile. Such is the case with me, and such—but hark! That surely is the tread of a horse. Do you hear it? there is no mistake now—" and as ...
— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms

... been grouped with Titian, the guiding rule of art. Though our master remains, take him all in all, the greatest of Venetian colourists, he never condescends to vaunt all that he knows, or to select his subjects as a groundwork for bravura, even the most legitimate. He is the greatest painter of the sixteenth century, just because, being the greatest colourist of the higher order, and in legitimate mastery of the brush second to none, he makes the worthiest use of his unrivalled accomplishment, not merely to call down the applause due to supreme pictorial ...
— The Earlier Work of Titian • Claude Phillips

... and a cottage, whose walls were not above five feet high, and whose thatched roof, green with moisture, age, houseleek, and grass, had in some places suffered damage from the encroachment of two cows, whose appetite this appearance of verdure had diverted from their more legitimate pasture. An ill-spelt and worse-written inscription intimated to the traveller that he might here find refreshment for man and horse,—no unacceptable intimation, rude as the hut appeared to be, considering ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott


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