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Definition of Legitimizes
1. legitimize [v] - See also: legitimize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimizes
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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