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Definition of Legitimately

1. Adverb. In a manner acceptable to common custom. "You cannot do this legitimately!"

2. Adverb. In a lawfully recognized manner. "Let's get married so our child can be born legitimately"

Definition of Legitimately

1. adv. In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.

Definition of Legitimately

1. Adverb. In a legitimate manner, properly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Legitimately

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimately

legislatorships legislatour legislatress legislatresses legislatrix legislature legislatures legist legists legit

legitim legitimacies legitimacy legitimate legitimated legitimately (current term) legitimateness legitimates legitimating legitimation

legitimations legitimatise legitimatist legitimatists legitimatization legitimatize legitimatized legitimatizes legitimatizing legitimator

Literary usage of Legitimately

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

1. The Science of Logic: Or, an Analysis of the Laws of Thought by Asa Mahan (1857)
"We would now invite very special attention to the following question, to wit: On what conditions can the theistic proposition, "God exists," legitimately ..."

2. The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor (1911)
"... work for which they were peculiarly fitted, and at which, after receiving proper training, they could permanently and legitimately earn higher wages. ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"This gave the defendant the benefit of all he could legitimately ask for in the instruction which ..."

4. The Bookman (1915)
"However, the only basis of comparison by which we may legitimately go is that of total points in the months representing the year. ..."

5. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1880)
"sent the general wish of Churchmen legitimately expressed in their Synods nnd Conferences. Again, Parliament as well as Convocation needs to be instructed ..."

6. Journal by Indiana General Assembly. Senate, Indiana, General Assembly, United States Congress Senate (1893)
"... through what is known as "paid-up shares" and often adding features of insurance not at first intended, nor legitimately a part of these associations. ..."

7. The Making of the Nation, 1783-1817 by Francis Amasa Walker (1895)
"... it Throws them Over at the Beginning—Impossibility of Deriving the Constitution legitimately from Either the Confederation or the Revolutionary ..."

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