Thesaurus: legitimate

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1. a. 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.
2. a. Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
3. a. Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
4. a. Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.
5. a. Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
6. v. t. 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.
7. adj. of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
8. adj. based on known statements or events or conditions
9. adj. in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles
10. adj. authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law
11. v. make legal
12. v. show or affirm to be just and legitimate