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noun

Legitimation n.

The act of making legitimate. "The coining or legitimation of money."

Lawful birth. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Legitimation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Legitimation" Quotes from Famous Books

... like government, the highest organ of the state, which has grown out of the order of the state, but it receives its legitimation, its call, and its mission from ...

— Readings on Fascism and National Socialism • Various

... accept as our point of departure the principle that there is a hierarchy of races and of civilisations, and that we belong to the higher race and civilisation.... The essential legitimation of conquest is precisely this conviction of our own superiority.... Nations which do not hold this belief, because incapable of such sincerity towards themselves, should not ...

— The Open Secret of Ireland • T. M. Kettle

... need not exist. For a theory of taste the expression of an accepted ideal of archaism, on whatever basis it may have been accepted, is perhaps best rated as an element of beauty; there need be no question of its legitimation. But for the present purpose—for the purpose of determining what economic grounds are present in the accepted canons of taste and what is their significance for the distribution and consumption ...

— The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen

... infliction of a fine by the dicastery, while he had been without office from July, 430, to July, 429, but before the last he recovered his hold over the Ecclesia, and was gratified in the closing days of his life by its legitimation of his ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 • Various

Words linked to "Legitimation" : legalisation, deed, legalization, human action, legitimate, law, human activity, group action, act