Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of making legal, or of giving a thing the recognition of law.
- noun The act of rendering legitimate; specifically, the investing of an illegitimate child, or one supposed to be the issue of an illegal marriage, with the rights of one born in lawful wedlock.
- noun In Germany, etc., proof of identity and of legal permission to reside in a certain place, engage in a certain occupation, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of making legitimate.
- noun rare Lawful birth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process of making or declaring a person
legitimate . - noun obsolete
Legitimacy . - noun The act of establishing something as
lawful ;authorization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of making lawful
- noun the act of rendering a person legitimate
Etymologies
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Examples
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By the notion of legitimation I mean that the men and women in the crowd were informed by the belief that they were defending traditional rights or customs; and, in general, that they were supported by the wider consensus of the community.
"Moral economy" as a historical social concept Daniel Little 2008
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By the notion of legitimation I mean that the men and women in the crowd were informed by the belief that they were defending traditional rights or customs; and, in general, that they were supported by the wider consensus of the community.
Archive 2008-07-01 Daniel Little 2008
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He also dismissed Roberts '"legitimation" argument, noting that any speech that defends a group or its cause can help to legitimate the organization.
Geoffrey R. Stone: 'Material Support' and the First Amendment 2010
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He also dismissed Roberts'"legitimation" argument, noting that any speech that defends a group or its cause can help to legitimate the organization.
Geoffrey R. Stone: 'Material Support' and the First Amendment Geoffrey R. Stone 2010
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He also dismissed Roberts '"legitimation" argument, noting that any speech that defends a group or its cause can help to legitimate the organization.
Geoffrey R. Stone: 'Material Support' and the First Amendment 2010
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Such legitimation is termed plenior in canon law to distinguish it from the plena legitimation which is granted by papal rescript, and from the plenissima which follows on the radical validation of a marriage (sanatio in radice).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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The situation is not a battle between religion and non-religion, but as the revolutionary Iranian sociologist Ali Shariati once suggested, a struggle between two different forms of religion: one of 'legitimation' and one of 'revolution'; the struggle of a religion of freedom and liberty against a religion of despotism, fanaticism and violence; a religion of oppressors against that of the oppressed.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mahmood Delkhasteh 2010
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In Swedish, it's short for "legitimation," which is the word for "identification," as in I.D. So when you go to the liquor store, they ask to see your "leg."
thing-a-day 2010 2010
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In different contexts, courts have sometimes led the public ( "legitimation"), sometimes produced a backlash, and sometimes polarized the public on an issue even if no aggregate shift in attitudes can be discerned.
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'legitimation' and, with it, the rationale for research altogether - esp. in disciplines pertaining to human life, society and meaning.
CHE > Latest news 2010
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