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Definition of Legitimised
1. legitimise [v] - See also: legitimise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimised
Literary usage of Legitimised
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Civil Law; Or, Examination in the Institutes of Justinian: Being by Patrick Cumin (1854)
"The rescript might be obtained by the father, or, indeed, by the children, if
his testament declared his wish that they should be legitimised. TITLE XI. ..."
2. Woman in France During the Eighteenth Century by Julia Kavanagh (1893)
"The weakness of the Duke of Maine encouraged the princes of the blood to protest
against the edicts by which the legitimised children of Louis XIV. had been ..."
3. The Science of Ethics by Michael Cronin (1917)
"Of course it takes a long time before a usurping government is legitimised, but
once legitimised, the people are bound to give it due obedience and respect. ..."
4. The Antiquities of Greece by George Friedrich Schömann (1880)
"As examples of these legitimised ... who were neither legitimised nor admitted
to citizenship, we are left completely without information. ..."
5. The French Revolution: A Political History, 1789-1804 by François-Alphonse Aulard (1910)
"One might say that here the fact preceded the law, and legitimised it, historically
speaking ; the law legitimised the fact from the rational point of view. ..."
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