Definition of Legitimating

1. Verb. (present participle of legitimate) ¹

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Definition of Legitimating

1. legitimate [v] - See also: legitimate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimating

legislatresses
legislatrix
legislature
legislatures
legist
legists
legit
legitim
legitimacies
legitimacy
legitimate
legitimated
legitimately
legitimateness
legitimates
legitimating (current term)
legitimation
legitimations
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legitimatist
legitimatists
legitimatization
legitimatize
legitimatized
legitimatizes
legitimatizing
legitimator
legitimators
legitimisation
legitimise

Literary usage of Legitimating

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

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"Annotation—Effect of statute legitimating issue of void or voidable marriage. The question as to conflict of laws in relation to legitimacy is not within ..."

2. An Historical Development of the Present Political Constitution of the by Johann Stephan Pütter, Josiah Dornford (1790)
"... in declaring infants out of their minority, and legitimating natural children. ... legitimating ..."

3. A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws; Or, Private International Law by Francis Wharton (1906)
"It is to be observed with reference to the English cases that have refused to acknowledge the legitimating effect ascribed to a subsequent intermarriage of ..."

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