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What does legitimacy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word legitimacy? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The quality of being legitimate or valid; validity.
  2. Lawfulness of birth; directness of descent as affecting the royal succession.
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The abolition of apartheid restored the legitimacy of the South African state.
His career was so important for the legitimacy of Queensberry rules boxing as we know it today.
This is true, but the real crisis in legitimacy is caused by differential abstention rates.
Singh said before his kidnapping that he does not acknowledge the legitimacy of the court ruling.
This story makes reference to the age-old anxiety surrounding the idea of legitimacy and wedlock.
Elevating these wackadoos to even the most carefully vetted legitimacy lowers a writer to an idiot.

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