Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method
A person born to a legally married couple.
But should a “holy alliance of legitimates” extinguish it, it will be but for a season.
To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
From Middle English legitimat, legytymat, from Medieval Latin lēgitimātus, perfect passive participle of Latin lēgitimō (“to make legal”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Latin lēgitimus (“...
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