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Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors..

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

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

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

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 authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word..

Legitimately :: Legitimately (adv.) In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.

Base :: Base (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.

Basely :: Basely (adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.

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

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

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

Lawful :: Lawful (a.) Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.

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

Bastard :: Bastard (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note..

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..

Miscreated :: Miscreated (a.) Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.

Jacobinism :: Jacobinism (n.) The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.

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.

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