What (who) is legitimate - definition
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Legitimate; Legal legitimacy; Legitmates; Legitimacies; Legitimately; Legitimateness; Legitimity; Legitimacy (disambiguation); Illegitimate (disambiguation); Legitimacy (law); Legal Legitimacy
legitimate
adj., adv1) legal, proper, real. 2) referring to a child born to parents who are married. A baby born to parents who are not married is illegitimate, but can be made legitimate (legitimatized) by the subsequent marriage of the parents. 3) v. to make proper and/or legal.
Legitimate
·adj Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
II. Legitimate ·adj Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
III. Legitimate ·adj Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
IV. Legitimate ·adj Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.
V. Legitimate ·vt 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.
VI. Legitimate ·adj 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.
legitimate
¦ adjective l?'d??t?m?t
1. conforming to the law or to rules.
(of a sovereign) having a title based on strict hereditary right.
2. (of a child) born of parents lawfully married to each other.
3. able to be defended with logic or justification.
¦ verb l?'d??t?me?t make legitimate.
Derivatives
legitimately adverb
legitimation noun
legitimatization or legitimatisation noun
legitimatize or legitimatise verb
Origin
ME: from med. L. legitimatus, legitimare 'make legal'.
Wikipedia
Legitimacy
Legitimacy, from the Latin legitimare meaning "to make lawful", may refer to:
- Legitimacy (criminal law)
- Legitimacy (family law)
- Legitimacy (political)
Pronunciation examples for legitimate
1. legitimate innovation.
The Industries of the Future _ Alec Ross _ Talks at Google
2. legitimate business.
From the Beach to the Boardroom to a Billion and Beyond _ Kathy Ireland _ Talks at Google
3. that's a legitimate secret --
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4. And they're not legitimate.
Jason Hickel _ The Divide - A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions _ Talks at Google
5. that a legitimate worry?
Khan Academy - Education For All _ Salman Khan _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of legitimate
1. "It‘s legitimate to privatize education and legitimate to bring commercial bodies into schools," says Prof.
2. Not legitimate "The evidence used to convict the men is not legitimate.
3. Those concerns are legitimate, but there were those who have gone beyond reasonable and legitimate discourse.
4. "We don‘t want our security measures to impede legitimate travel and legitimate tourism," he said.
5. He had people call in with legitimate issues, and he had people call in with not–so–legitimate issues.