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Definition of Legitimises
1. legitimise [v] - See also: legitimise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimises
Literary usage of Legitimises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"The latest words of .m' Pericles express what to the student of the history of
civilisation is an ~. . legitimises important feature of his character—his ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... of Parliament attempting to bind the future by fundamental laws ; and legitimises
itself puts the law of succession beyond even sovereign competence. ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1882)
"It is quite impossible to discover the shadow of a legal reason which legitimises
at sea an act prohibited on land. Land and water are, it is objected, ..."
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