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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Revolt :: Revolt (n.) The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire..
Legitimatize :: Legitimatize (v. t.) To legitimate.
Illegitimatize :: Illegitimatize (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to bastardize.
Legitimate :: Legitimate (v. t.) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child..
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference..
Exploit :: Exploit (n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.
Truly :: Truly (adv.) Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.
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.
By-blow :: By-blow (n.) An illegitimate child; a bastard.
Illegitimately :: Illegitimately (adv.) In a illegitimate manner; unlawfully.
Illegitimacy :: Illegitimacy (n.) The state of being illegitimate.
Legitimateness :: Legitimateness (n.) The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.
Basely :: Basely (adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.
"""bastard " :: Bastard (n.) A natural child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union..
Natural :: Natural (a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death..
Base :: Base (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
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..
Adulterine :: Adulterine (n.) An illegitimate child.
Legitimize :: Legitimize (v. t.) To legitimate.
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