ALL meanings of delegitimation
le·git·i·mate
D d - adjective delegitimation according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner. 1
- adjective delegitimation in accordance with established rules, principles, or standards. 1
- adjective delegitimation born in wedlock or of legally married parents: legitimate children. 1
- adjective delegitimation in accordance with the laws of reasoning; logically inferable; logical: a legitimate conclusion. 1
- adjective delegitimation resting on or ruling by the principle of hereditary right: a legitimate sovereign. 1
- adjective delegitimation not spurious or unjustified; genuine: It was a legitimate complaint. 1
- adjective delegitimation of the normal or regular type or kind. 1
- adjective delegitimation Theater. of or relating to professionally produced stage plays, as distinguished from burlesque, vaudeville, television, motion pictures, etc.: an actor in the legitimate theater. 1
- verb with object delegitimation to make lawful or legal; pronounce or state as lawful: Parliament legitimated his accession to the throne. 1
- verb with object delegitimation to establish as lawfully born: His bastard children were afterward legitimated by law. 1
- verb with object delegitimation to show or declare to be legitimate or proper: He was under obligation to legitimate his commission. 1
- verb with object delegitimation to justify; sanction or authorize: His behavior was legitimated by custom. 1
- noun delegitimation the legitimate, the legitimate theater or drama. 1
- noun delegitimation a person who is established as being legitimate. 1
- noun delegitimation The act of removing the legitimacy from something, or of making something illegitimate. 0