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To make lawful, such as when a child is born prior to the parents' marriage and they subsequently wed and thereby confer upon the child the same legal status as those born in lawful wedlock. That which is lawful, legal, recognized by law, or in accordance with law, such as legitimate children or legitimate authority; real, valid, or genuine. Cross-referenceslegitimate adj., adv.: 1) legal, proper, real. 2) referring to a child born to parents who are married. A baby born to parents who are not married is illegitimate, but can be made legitimate (legitimatized) by the subsequent marriage of the parents. 3) v. to make proper and/or legal. LEGITIMATE. That which is according to law; as, legitimate children, are lawful children, born in wedlock, in contradistinction to bastards; legitimate authority, or lawful power, in opposition to usurpation. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It means that on one hand, people see the morality of reciprocity as a handy way to legitimatize their resistance against the state; on the other hand, as in certain historical moments, the residents considered it a sustained moral source that ostensibly transcended individual interests, and united them to act collectively to address wider concerns. The latter addition attempts to legitimatize the IRS's losing position in the context of intangibles cost-sharing arrangements, (32) and may engender further controversy. Thus, Japan's step-by-step colonization of Korea, first by turning it into a protectorate (1905), followed by annexation (1910), is put into the context of the Japanese empire's development of conceptual and linguistic tools to legitimatize its status as a colonial power. |
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