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legitimation|lɪdʒɪtɪˈmeɪʃən|
[ad. med.L. lēgitimātiōn-em, n. of action f. lēgitimāre to legitimate. Cf. F. légitimation.]
1. The action or process of rendering or authoritatively declaring (a person) legitimate.
1460J. Capgrave Chron. 263 The duke of Lancastir purchased a legittimacion for the childyrn that he had begoten of dame Katerine Swynforth. 1543Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 188 The lettres of legitimatioun maid to the said Robert. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1093/1 Cranmer..alledging manie reasons..for the legitimation of both the kings sisters. 1611J. Guillim Heraldry ii. v. (1660) 63 By such legitimation they are discharged of all those dishonours which in former time they were subject unto. a1683Sidney Disc. Govt. iii. xxvi. (1704) 342 The intricacys of his Marriages, and the legitimation of his Children were settled by the same Power. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 110 Legitimation or the Tryal of Bastardy. 1791Boswell Johnson 22 Mar. an. 1776, I talked of legitimation by subsequent marriage, which obtained in the Roman law, and still obtains in the law of Scotland. 1845Polson Eng. Law in Encycl. Metrop. II. 843/1 Nor can his agnates succeed to him [a bastard], unless he has obtained letters of legitimation from the king.
†2. The condition of being legitimate; legitimacy. Obs.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) III. 392 The quhilk wedding wes lauchfull probatioun Of his barnis legitimatioun. 1595Shakes. John i. i. 248, I haue disclaim'd Sir Robert and my land, Legitimation, name, and all is gone. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 77 His infancie and doubt of legitimation, secluding him awhile from enjoying any Soveraigntie. 1660Bond Scut. Reg. 50 That Son giveth cause of suspition of his Legitimation who will not mourn at his Mothers death. 1689Locke Govt. §123 (1694) 120 From whence also will arise many Questions of Legitimation, and what in Nature is the difference betwixt a Wife and a Concubine.
fig.1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 137 Mr. Bayes having gone so many months, more than the Civil Law allows for the utmost term of legitimation.
b. transf. Of a literary work: The fact that it is the work of its reputed author; authenticity, genuineness. Now rare.
1635E. Bagshawe To Rdr. in R. Bolton Two Serm. (1635) A ij b, These Sermons are truely his owne..There are hundreds of people..who..can with me..attestate their legitimation. 1640Bp. Hall Episc. ii. xi, We are yet beholding to him for asserting the truth, and legitimation of these seven Epistles of our Martyr. 1670Walton Lives iii. 238 In this relation concerning these three doubtful Books of Mr. Hookers..I leave my Reader to give sentence, for their legitimation. 1884D. Hunter tr. Reuss's Hist. Canon x. 167 The legitimation refused to this book [the Apocalypse] is therefore not the authenticity in the literary sense of the word.
†3. The action of naturalizing (an alien). Obs.
1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf C j b, The most large and most benificiall Legitimation made to any alien.
†4. The action of giving a lawful character to something forbidden by law; a dispensation. Obs.
a1550Image Ipocr. ii. 376 in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 427 He robbeth all nations With his fulminations..Legittimations. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 219 A Dispensation is..in our Books sometimes stiled a Legitimation.
5. gen. The action of making lawful; authorization; rarely concr. a document of authorization.
1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. v, A direct uncharitableness..which can receive no warrant or legitimation by the intention of the propounder. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 193 The judicious and mature Legitimation of tipling Houses. 1799Carlton Ho. Mag. 293 The legitimation of Money, and the giving it its denominated value, is one especial part of a King's prerogative. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Poet Wks. (Bohn) I. 164 Herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith, that the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature. 1870Daily News 1 Dec., Persons going about their lawful business, and fortified by adequate legitimations. |