Legalise vs Legitimate - What's the difference?
legalise | legitimate |
To make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalising something that has been illegal or by specifically permitting it.
In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful.
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Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
* (rfdate) Macaulay
Authentic, real, genuine.
(senseid)Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
Relating to hereditary rights.
To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
As verbs the difference between legalise and legitimate
is that legalise is to make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalising something that has been illegal or by specifically permitting it while legitimate is to make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.As an adjective legitimate is
in accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful.legalise
English
(wikipedia legalise)Alternative forms
* legalizeVerb
(legalis)- There is a debate whether or not to legalise some of the softer drugs.
Antonyms
* (l), (l) * (l), (l)Derived terms
* (l), (l)Anagrams
* (l)legitimate
English
Etymology 1
From . Originally "lawfully begotten," from (etyl) legitimer and directly fromAdjective
(en adjective)- legitimate''' reasoning; a '''legitimate standard or method
- Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic.
- legitimate''' poems of Chaucer; '''legitimate inscriptions
