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Legitimation vs Legitimisation - What's the difference?

legitimation | legitimisation |

As nouns the difference between legitimation and legitimisation

is that legitimation is legitimization while legitimisation is (british).

legitimation

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The process of making or declaring a person legitimate.
  • (obsolete) Legitimacy.
  • *c. 1595 , (William Shakespeare), King John , First Folio 1623, I.1:
  • *:I am not Sir Roberts sonne, / I haue disclaim'd Sir Robert and my land, / Legitimation , name, and all is gone [...].
  • The act of establishing something as lawful; authorization.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 231:
  • *:Le Paige established a legitimation for the Parlement's authority which was part history, part romantic fiction, and part political wishful thinking.

    • Synonyms

    * legitimization ----

    legitimisation

    English

    Noun

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  • (British)