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Legitim [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father.

Legitimacy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Lawfulness of birth; opposed to bastardy.

2. Genuineness; opposed to spuriousness. the legitimacy of his conclusions is not to be questioned.

Legitimacy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.

Legitimate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Lawfully begotten or born; born in wedlock; as legitimate heirs or children.

2. Genuine; real; proceeding from a pure source; not false or spurious; as legitimate arguments or inferences.

Legitimate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make lawful

2. To render legitimate; to communicate the rights of a legitimate child to one that is illegitimate; to invest with the rights of a lawful heir.

Legitimate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

5. Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.

Legitimate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Legitimated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Legitimately [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Lawfully; according to law.

2. Genuinely; not falsely.

Legitimately [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.

Legitimateness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

legality; lawfulness; genuineness.

Legitimateness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.

Legitimating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Legitimation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of rendering legitimate, or of investing an illegitimate child with the rights of one born in wedlock.

2. Lawful birth. [Unusual.]

Legitimation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of making legitimate.

2. Lawful birth.

Legitimatist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Legitimist.

Legitimatize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To legitimate.

Legitimism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The principles or plans of legitimists.

Legitimist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.

2. Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.

Legitimize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To legitimate.

Legitimized [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Legitimizing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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