legitimation
Americannoun
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legitimations
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the act of making something legitimate or lawful.
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the act of granting a person the rights they would have held had their parents been married at the time of their birth.
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Derived Forms
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delegitimationnoun
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illegitimationnoun
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re-legitimationnoun
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self-legitimationnoun
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legitimativeadjective
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Example Sentences
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The crypto industry may now turn to sources of validation other than famous people, Yadav predicted — legitimation through regulation, for instance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
La Voie Droite denied publishing such content, saying in a statement that "when we encourage Muslims to respect the texts, it is opposed to any type of threat or legitimation of violence".
From Reuters ● Jan. 26, 2022
Earlier, Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt stressed that the talks were “not a legitimation or recognition of the Taliban.”
From Washington Times ● Jan. 23, 2022
“It’s a way we get legitimation for the process whereby we figure stuff out in science.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2019
And herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith that the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature with which they ought to be made to tally.
From Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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