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Legitimize vs Legitimation - What's the difference?

legitimize | legitimation |

As a verb legitimize

is to make legitimate.

As a noun legitimation is

legitimization.

legitimize

English

Alternative forms

* legitimise

Verb

(legitimiz)
  • To make legitimate.
    • Usage notes
    * Forms of (legitimize) ares about twice as common as forms of the verb legitimate in the US. * Forms of legitimate are somewhat more common than the forms of the verbs (legitimize) and (legitimise) in the UK combined.

    Synonyms

    * legitimate (verb)

    Derived terms

    * delegitimize * illegitimatize * illegitimize

    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 ----