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Definition of Legitimates
1. legitimate [v] - See also: legitimate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimates
Literary usage of Legitimates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Draft Outlines of an International Code by David Dudley Field (1876)
"Original domicil of legitimates. 285. The original domicil of a child which is
legitimate, or has been acknowledged by its father before its birth, ..."
2. Reminiscences: Personal and Other Incidents ; Early Settlement of Otsego by Levi Beardsley (1852)
"Fete of the legitimates;" with introductory remarks. IN 1812 the republicans of
our congressional district, and in fact the republicans throughout the state ..."
3. Half Truths and the Truth: Lectures on the Origin and Development of by Jacob Merrill Manning (1872)
"... V. THE CULTURE WHICH PANTHEISM legitimates. THOSE revolutionary tendencies of
modern thought, of which we hear so much, are nowhere more manifest than ..."