He has filial rights because he obtained letters of legitimation from the king.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

His parents' subsequent marriage resulted in his legitimation.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He also dismissed Roberts'"legitimation" argument, noting that any speech that defends a group or its cause can help to legitimate the organization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geoffrey R. Stone: 'Material Support' and the First Amendment] Reference

He also dismissed Roberts '"legitimation" argument, noting that any speech that defends a group or its cause can help to legitimate the organization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geoffrey R. Stone: 'Material Support' and the First Amendment] Reference

In Swedish, it's short for "legitimation," which is the word for "identification," as in I.D. So when you go to the liquor store, they ask to see your "leg.".    From Wordnik.com.  [thing-a-day 2010] Reference

'legitimation' and, with it, the rationale for research altogether - esp. in disciplines pertaining to human life, society and meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHE > Latest news] Reference

So that we are left somewhat insecure in our legitimation procedures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History] Reference

Earl of Arran; but he obtained letters of legitimation, 20 Jan. 1512-13.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference

The decision to wage war on terrorism gave to terrorism its political legitimation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacques Derrida, 9/11, And The Democracy Which is Yet to Come] Reference

Performative legitimation means maximizing the flow of information and minimizing static.    From Wordnik.com.  [Postmodernism] Reference

The grievances of victimized groups have no need for legitimation on common-good grounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saving the American Left: The Case for a New Progressive Creed] Reference

Sir Patrick afterwards obtained a letter of legitimation under the Great Seal, 20th January.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference

Nearly every political regime uses the symbols of art for its own legitimation; accordingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVOLUTION] Reference

As the bearer of the highest values, the State stood in no need of any further legitimation.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE STATE] Reference

This Papal pronouncement does not, however, undo the damage caused by Williamson's legitimation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menachem Rosensaft: Pope Benedict XVI's Noxious Rehabilitation of a Holocaust Denier] Reference

It serves these structures by acting as a point of reference from which they derive legitimation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charisma and History: The Case of Münster, Westphalia, 1534-1535. Tal Howard] Reference

This was a war initiated on false grounds and pursued in the absence of international legitimation.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Coates: "Turning the Page" in Iraq and Afghanistan] Reference

A mark of legitimation of philosophy should be the extent to which it contributes to human welfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of Religion] Reference

So challenges themselves carry a burden of legitimation, which blocks this regress route to skepticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistemological Problems of Testimony] Reference

Thus, the Machiavellian prince can count on no pre-existing structures of legitimation, as discussed above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Niccolò Machiavelli] Reference

The legitimation for policy and action must be global necessity, not just national or other limited interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brendan Smith: World Leaders Fiddle While the World Burns: Time for a New Climate Strategy] Reference

There was a massive scramble for whatever you can get to further legitimation of the use of the word university.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with William C. Friday, November 26, 1990. Interview L-0145. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

In this case, he was even looking for a semi-legitimation of a certain matter from a political party he loathes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing In Inaction: Why An Opposition Party Matters] Reference

On this view there are no outside commands to appeal to for legitimation, and we are condemned to our own freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Morality] Reference

With Dilthey, the search for a philosophical legitimation of the human sciences is brought a significant step further.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermeneutics] Reference

The story of the five daughters of Zelophehad provides legitimation of a limited right of Israelite women to inherit land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daughters of Zelophehad: Bible.] Reference

Both documents regarding his legitimation, which are now preserved in the Este archives, were originally in Lucretia's chancellery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

"The SADC could lead to a new constitution, fresh elections, the legitimation of a new power and stabilization of the economy," he argued.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In the absence of a clearly defined constituency, both will continue to claim legitimation arbitrarily, by speaking for the entire nation.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Hungary's New Twist': An Exchange] Reference

And when has history ever failed to be concerned with the establishment and legitimation of basic social categories and moral trajectories?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Poisoned Country'] Reference

Elizabeth was born in lawful wedlock, no subsequent legitimation could give them precedence over an indubitably legitimate descendant of Henry VII. and.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

What is also of concern in the regional conflicts in and around the Great Lakes region is the legitimation of force and deligitimisation of negotiations.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

However, legalization, which would entail legitimation in the world's biggest market, the United States, would surely increase the number of source countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [About Cocaine And Bananas] Reference

The mascarade election has been a total failure, too, on the part of the European Union and the Belgians who funded this legitimation of warlords-turned-democratic-leaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Community Not Doing Enough Top Stop Genocide in The D R.Congo] Reference

In this way the media multiplies the force of traumatic events, again ensuring the political legitimation of terror by the exploitation of technological and information networks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacques Derrida, 9/11, And The Democracy Which is Yet to Come] Reference