Definition of Legitimacies

1. legitimacy [n] - See also: legitimacy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimacies

legislator
legislatorial
legislators
legislatorship
legislatorships
legislatour
legislatress
legislatresses
legislatrix
legislature
legislatures
legist
legists
legit
legitim
legitimacies (current term)
legitimacy
legitimate
legitimated
legitimately
legitimateness
legitimates
legitimating
legitimation
legitimations
legitimatise
legitimatist
legitimatists
legitimatization
legitimatize

Literary usage of Legitimacies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Monitor (1824)
"In fact, they have lost the occasion of enriching European civilization with two novel legitimacies: the legitimate power of the Mahometans to massacre some ..."

2. The Legitimacy of International Organizations by Jean-Marc Coicaud (2001)
"Normative indeterminacy. legitimacies. and international legitimacy The normative ... This is a manifestation of the different legitimacies inhabiting ..."

3. Gleanings in Europe by James Fenimore Cooper (1837)
"... than to see themselves elevated into, as La Fayette expresses, so many " little legitimacies." The peerage, with its exclusive and hereditary benefits, ..."

4. The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"... here their legitimacies are proved, and here their dignities confirmed. The origin then of this alliance is situated deep in the mind; and the constancy ..."

5. Pilgrimage in Europe and America, Leading to the Discovery of the Sources of by Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (1828)
"... if ever things should happen to give value to words, I believe such usurpations will be worth more than certain legitimacies. ..."

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