Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or fact of being legitimate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being legitimate; conformity to law, rule, or principle; natural or logical result; regularity; propriety; correctness: as, the legitimacy of a government, of an argument, or of a conclusion.
- n. Specifically Lawfulness of birth: opposed to bastardy.
- n. Directness or regularity of descent, as affecting the right of succession. See legitimist, 2.
Wiktionary
- n. the quality of being legitimate or valid; validity
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.
WordNet 3.0
- n. undisputed credibility
- n. lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law
Examples
“Whereas authority refers to a specific position in an established government, the term legitimacy is used when describing a system of government itself - where government may be generalized to mean the wider 'sphere of influence.”
“A Muslim prayer leader addressing worshippers in the capital seized on Saleh's use of the word "legitimacy" and asked "what legitimacy is this man talking about?”
“Republicans made the conscious decision to turn healthcare into a referendum on legitimacy, and I believe that much of that refusal to accept his legitimacy is fueled by the fact that he is not white.”
Matthew Yglesias » Ethnocentrism and Small Government Hypocrisy
“Your legitimacy is beginning to look as legitimate as the Iranian government's.”
“How can the TNSG maintain legitimacy if one of their members violates the above portion of the law?”
“Its legitimacy is based on its capacity to deliver economically, not on bankrupt communist ideology.”
The Guardian: History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly
“The report, released in late May 2009, states the Tribunal's legitimacy is threatened by charges of corruption and political interference.”
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“And legitimacy is far more than the artifact of an observed tendency of people to obey institutional precepts; even the term precepts is conceptually slightly different from commands or orders.”
“This imbued the coins with a certain legitimacy in relation to the concocted stories of their discovery, intended to hide their true origins with persons closely tied to the Mint.”
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“If torture actually worked, we could debate whether the tarnish on our national legitimacy is worth the improved security, but torture doesn't work.”
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
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collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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absolute majority, absolute monarchy, abstentionism, access to informa..., acquisition of arms, action brought be..., action for annulment, action to establi..., ad hoc committee, adjournment, adjournment motion, administration and 965 more...
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(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Zimbabwoe
A list of words and terminology culled from the media in relation to the political situation in Zimbabwe. List commenced April 2008.
election, poverty, hyperinflation, tsvangirai, mdc, mugabe, zanu pf, activist, stalemate, behind-the-scenes, arrest, election result and 86 more...
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