Delegitimate vs. Legitimate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Delegitimate and Legitimate
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Delegitimate
(transitive) To cause (something) not to be legitimate; to make illegitimate, to illegitimize.
Legitimate
Conforming to the law or to rules
His claims to legitimate authority
Legitimate
Able to be defended with logic or justification; valid
A legitimate excuse for being late
Legitimate
Constituting or relating to serious drama as distinct from musical comedy, revue, etc.
The legitimate theatre
Legitimate
Make lawful or justify
The regime was not legitimated by popular support
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Legitimate
Being in compliance with the law; lawful
A legitimate business.
Legitimate
Being in accordance with established or accepted rules and standards
Legitimate advertising practices.
Legitimate
Valid or justifiable
A legitimate complaint.
Legitimate
Based on logical reasoning
A legitimate deduction.
Legitimate
Born of legally married parents
Legitimate offspring.
Legitimate
Of, relating to, or ruling by hereditary right
A legitimate monarch.
Legitimate
Of or relating to drama of high professional quality that excludes burlesque, vaudeville, and some forms of musical comedy
The legitimate theater.
Legitimate
To legitimize.
Legitimate
In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.
Legitimate
Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
Legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method
Legitimate
Authentic, real, genuine.
Legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions
Legitimate
Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
Legitimate
Relating to hereditary rights.
Legitimate
Belonging or relating to the legitimate theater.
Legitimate
A person born to a legally married couple.
Legitimate
(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.
Legitimate
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.
Legitimate
Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
Legitimate
Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfe`t, or spurious; as,$legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
Legitimate
Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.
Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic.
Legitimate
Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
Legitimate
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.
To enact a statute of that which he dares not seem to approve, even to legitimate vice.
Legitimate
Make legal;
Marijuana should be legalized
Legitimate
Show or affirm to be just and legitimate
Legitimate
Make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone);
They legitimized their natural child
Legitimate
Of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
Legitimate
In accordance with reason or logic;
A logical conclusion
Legitimate
In accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles;
Legitimate advertising practices
Legitimate
Authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law;
A legitimate government
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