Meaning of LEGITIMACY
| Pronunciation: | | li'jitumusee
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- [n] undisputed credibility
- [n] lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law
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| | Synonyms: | | authenticity, genuineness |
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| | Antonyms: | | illegitimacy | | |
| | See Also: | | believability, credibility, credibleness, lawfulness, real McCoy, real stuff, real thing | |
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| | Definition: | | \Le*git"i*ma*cy\ (-[i^]*m[.a]*s[y^]), n. [See
{Legitimate}, a.]
The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity
with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully
begotten, or born in wedlock.
The doctrine of Divine Right, which has now come back
to us, like a thief from transportation, under the
alias of Legitimacy. --Macaulay.
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| | Definition: | | the right to rule on the basis of recognized principles. |
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| | Related Terms: | | absolute power, absolute realism, absolutism, actionability, admissibility, admissibleness, allowableness, applicability, artlessness, authenticity, authority, bona fideness, competence, competency, constituted authority, constitutional validity, constitutionalism, constitutionality, defensibility, delegated authority, divine right, due process, excusability, explainability, explicability, faculty, forgivableness, genuineness, honesty, inartificiality, indirect authority, inherent authority, jurisdiction, jus divinum, justice, justiciability, justifiability, justifiableness, lawful authority, lawfulness, legal authority, legal form, legal process, legalism, legality, legitimateness, licitness, lifelikeness, literalism, literality, literalness, naturalism, naturalness, pardonableness, permissibility, permissibleness, photographic realism, power, prerogative, realism, realness, reasonability, reasonableness, regality, remissibility, right, rightful authority, rightfulness, royal prerogative, sanctionableness, scope, sincerity, the say, the say-so, true-to-lifeness, truth to nature, unadulteration, unaffectedness, unfictitiousness, unspeciousness, unspuriousness, unsyntheticness, validity, veniality, verisimilitude, vested authority, vicarious authority, vindicability, warrantableness |
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