Definition of legitimate

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

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Illegitimatize :: Illegitimatize (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to bastardize.
Illegitimated :: Illegitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Illegitimat.
Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors..
Legitimatize :: Legitimatize (v. t.) To legitimate.
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..
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.
Titleless :: Titleless (a.) Not having a title or name; without legitimate title.
Basely :: Basely (adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.
Adulterine :: Adulterine (n.) An illegitimate child.
Illegitimacy :: Illegitimacy (n.) The state of being illegitimate.
Miscreated :: Miscreated (a.) Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word..
Truly :: Truly (adv.) Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.
Affiliate :: Affiliate (v. t.) To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another..
Exploit :: Exploit (n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.
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.
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child..
Fitz :: Fitz (n.) A son; -- used in compound names, to indicate paternity, esp. of the illegitimate sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the son of the duke of Clarence..
Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions..
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference..
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