Associations to the word «Legitimation»

Wiktionary

LEGITIMATION, noun. The process of making or declaring a person legitimate.
LEGITIMATION, noun. (obsolete) Legitimacy.
LEGITIMATION, noun. The act of establishing something as lawful; authorization.

Dictionary definition

LEGITIMATION, noun. The act of rendering a person legitimate; "he has filial rights because he obtained letters of legitimation from the king"; "his parents' subsequent marriage resulted in his legitimation".
LEGITIMATION, noun. The act of making lawful.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats