In short, Maduro is now facing dual crises: One economic, the other of legitimacy.
At first blush, this practice may have the appearance of legitimacy in cases where detainees refused to eat or drink.
It goes beyond just finding the music unpleasant, it invokes the rhetoric of legitimacy.
The Tudors who succeeded Richard to the throne reinforced their own legitimacy by setting out systematically to trash him.
Having claimed the legitimacy given him by huge support in the streets, al Sisi banned demonstrations that might turn against him.
Later on, too, he intervenes in France and acknowledges the legitimacy of the Republic.
It frightens me—raising my old nightmare of a lawsuit about the legitimacy of my child.
On the other hand, the house in the street of Consuls was a known out-post of legitimacy.
For the first time America was posing as the champion of legitimacy and order.
It decided on the validity of the king's marriages and the legitimacy of the king's children.
1690s, of children; general use by 1836; see legitimate + -cy. Legitimateness an earlier word for it.
