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

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

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

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

Adulterine :: Adulterine (n.) An illegitimate child.

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

Legitimation :: Legitimation (n.) The act of making 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..

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

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..

Legitimist :: Legitimist (n.) One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right..

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.

Titleless :: Titleless (a.) Not having a title or name; without legitimate title.

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

Exploit :: Exploit (n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.

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

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..

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

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

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