Delegitimate vs. Legitimate
Delegitimateverb
(transitive) To cause (something) not to be legitimate; to make illegitimate, to illegitimize.
Legitimateadjective
In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful.
Legitimateadjective
Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
Legitimateadjective
Authentic, real, genuine.
Legitimateadjective
Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
Legitimateadjective
Relating to hereditary rights.
Legitimatenoun
A person born to a legally married couple.
Legitimateverb
(transitive) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
Legitimateadjective
Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.
Legitimateadjective
Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
Legitimateadjective
Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfe`t, or spurious; as,$legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
Legitimateadjective
Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.
Legitimateadjective
Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
Legitimateverb
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.
Legitimateverb
make legal;
Legitimateverb
show or affirm to be just and legitimate
Legitimateverb
make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone);
Legitimateadjective
of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
Legitimateadjective
in accordance with reason or logic;
Legitimateadjective
in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles;
Legitimateadjective
authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law;
Legitimateadjective
conforming to the law or to rules
Legitimateadjective
(of a child) born of parents lawfully married to each other
Legitimateadjective
(of a sovereign) having a title based on strict hereditary right
Legitimateadjective
able to be defended with logic or justification; valid
Legitimateadjective
constituting or relating to serious drama as distinct from musical comedy, revue, etc.
Legitimateverb
make lawful or justify
