Legitimacy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LEGITIMACY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the quality of being legitimate
• conformity to the law or to rules
• (with reference to a child) the quality of being legitimate
• ability to be defended with logic or justification; validity
• lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law
• undisputed credibility
ADJECTIVE:
• The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being legitimate

Words related to LEGITIMACY

legitimacies17 legitimate13

Words that contain LEGITIMACY

illegitimacy20

How to use LEGITIMACY in a sentence

• On the principle of legitimacy, she had a title to the throne superior to Elizabeth herself, and the succession of princes has ever been determined by this.
• He has shown that, instead of being a mere pseud-idea, it admits of elaboration into a definite conception, so showing its legitimacy as an hypothesis.
• It was his idea to give permanence to the new order of things by associating two strong parties in its support, the friends of legitimacy and the republicans.
• By this simple expedient their former marriages of convenience received the sanction of law, and their children the seal of legitimacy.
• Legitimacy of our demand to be essential in the Universe, 33.
• Their complaints certainly had some degree of legitimacy.
• Having aided his lawlessness, we defended his legitimacy.
• We admit that the South can make out its title of legitimacy.
• I have not entirely disposed of some misgivings with respect to the legitimacy of his use of the means, so he commenced reading aloud in the Bible.
• The base and feeble remains of legitimacy seemed to die away of its own weakness, and the despised younger son of the king-making vizier soon reigned supreme at Cabool.
• The Republic denied the legitimacy of this proceeding.
• He understood that by controlling a university club, he gained legitimacy, prestige, and unlimited access to free lecture halls.
• The children of Anne Allard, moreover, brought a suit to establish their own legitimacy.
• Taking advantage of the Legitimacy Declaration Act, they alleged that Mrs.
• It is not a question of the legitimacy of the sentiment, but of the fulness and felicity of its expression.
• I was able some forty years ago to settle in Concord a matter which had puzzled English historians, as to the legitimacy of the famous statesman and Chief Justice, Oliver St.
• I think you establish his legitimacy quite satisfactorily and in any future edition of my Lives of the Chief Justices I shall certainly avail myself of your researches.
• The restoration of legitimacy, and the momentary enthusiasm of the French in favor of their exiled monarch, disturbed the intellects of half mankind.
• The indiscriminate marriages of Henry VIII had thrown more than a shadow of doubt upon the legitimacy of every one of his children.
• It is upon the indisputable evidence of such normal evolution in the system of musical structure, that our conviction of the legitimacy and permanence of this system rests.
• There are prejudices in favor of the exclusive legitimacy of certain constructions that he feels bound to respect.
• As was to be expected, when time had in some degree obliterated the details of history, each party began to claim for itself the sovereign virtue of legitimacy.
• Admitting the legitimacy of the argument of my learned adversary, it would not authorize the inference he draws from it, because his own case falls within the same range.
• They had no reverence for Bel, no belief in the claim of Babylon to confer a title of legitimacy on the sovereign of western Asia.
• The doubtful legitimacy of such rough coercion did not disturb the mind of Venn.
• By his nuptials with this princess, Psamatik assured to his crown the legitimacy which it had hitherto lacked.
• The senate immediately met and acknowledged the legitimacy of his claims.
• He well knew that his legitimacy was doubted, and that if an illegitimate child he had no right whatever to the throne.
• They might have had it at any time, but this did not suit their policy of legitimacy.
• But it is very rarely the case that the question of the legitimacy of a property interest can be reduced to a purely moral issue.

Similar words containing LEGITIMA without suffix cy

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