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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Illegitimated :: Illegitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Illegitimat.
By-blow :: By-blow (n.) An illegitimate child; a bastard.
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word..
Bastard :: Bastard (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note..
Titleless :: Titleless (a.) Not having a title or name; without legitimate title.
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference..
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..
Legitimist :: Legitimist (n.) One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right..
Legitimateness :: Legitimateness (n.) The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.
Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
Adulterine :: Adulterine (n.) An illegitimate child.
Lawful :: Lawful (a.) Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.
Legitimatize :: Legitimatize (v. t.) To legitimate.
Legitimated :: Legitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Legitimat.
Truly :: Truly (adv.) Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.
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..
Miscreated :: Miscreated (a.) Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.
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.
Natural :: Natural (a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child..
Base :: Base (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
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