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usually uncountable, plural legitimations
The process of making or declaring a person legitimate. examples
(obsolete) Legitimacy. quotations
I am not Sir Roberts sonne, / I haue disclaim'd Sir Robert and my land, / Legitimation, name, and all is gone […] .
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]
The act of establishing something as lawful; authorization. quotations examples
Le Paige established a legitimation for the Parlement's authority which was part history, part romantic fiction, and part political wishful thinking.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 231