Definition of Legitimizes

1. Verb. (third-person singular of legitimize) ¹

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Definition of Legitimizes

1. legitimize [v] - See also: legitimize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimizes

legitimiser
legitimisers
legitimises
legitimising
legitimism
legitimisms
legitimist
legitimists
legitimity
legitimization
legitimizations
legitimize
legitimized
legitimizer
legitimizers
legitimizes
legitimizing
legitims
legits
leglan
leglans
leglen
leglens
legless
legless lizard
leglessly
leglessness
leglet
leglets
leglike

Literary usage of Legitimizes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of a Case of Legitimacy Under a Putative Marriage: Tried Before the by Robert Bell (1825)
"They tell us the very reverse, for they say, that the bona fides legitimizes the child, in spite of the nullity of the marriage. But this argument, from the ..."

2. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1837)
"... to presume—for a marriage which legitimizes children upon the same ground as for a marriage which precedes the birth of the children—so 1 understood. ..."

3. Moon-o-theism: Religion of a War and Moon God Prophet, Volume II of II by Yoel Natan (2006)
"Some critics say that so-called Islamophobes who call terrorists "Jihadists" ought not to do so because that legitimizes terrorists.4697 Muslims, however, ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In most States, however, such a marriage legitimizes previous offspring. Complications arise where after the child's birth, one of the parents marries a ..."

5. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"Those of the highest order have in all countries a revolutionary method ; and Cromwell perceived that the necessity which legitimizes the revolutionary ..."

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