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What does legitimation mean?

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Noun
  1. The process of making or declaring a person legitimate.
  2. (obsolete) Legitimacy.
  3. The act of establishing something as lawful; authorization.
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Their achievements in these endeavors gained them some of the social legitimation which they previously lacked.
The absence of UN legitimation of this exercise, as I've said many times in the past, has never been the central issue.
Thompson enumerates a number of the strategies of domination, including legitimation, dissimulation, unification, fragmentation, and reification.
After his legitimation in 1397 he changed his bearings to the royal arms of France and England within a border gobony of silver and azure.
An action for declarator of parentage, non-parentage, legitimacy, legitimation or illegitimacy may be brought in the Court of Session or the Sheriff Court.
Whatever the legitimation in terms of harmonious labour relations, corporatism in practice ensured that the interests of big business prevailed over those of organized labour.

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