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Definition of legitimate

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Legitimate (a.) Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir..

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Illegitimation :: Illegitimation (n.) The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy.

Miscreate :: Miscreate (a.) Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles..

Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions..

Child :: Child (n.) A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants..

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child..

Illegitimatize :: Illegitimatize (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to bastardize.

Illegitimacy :: Illegitimacy (n.) The state of being illegitimate.

Legitimatize :: Legitimatize (v. t.) To legitimate.

Legitimated :: Legitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Legitimat.

Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.

Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard..

Legitimateness :: Legitimateness (n.) The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.

Illegitimated :: Illegitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Illegitimat.

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.

By-blow :: By-blow (n.) An illegitimate child; a bastard.

Bastardize :: Bastardize (v. t.) To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

Legitimacy :: Legitimacy (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..

Mulierly :: Mulierly (adv.) In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately.

Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference..