单词 | legitimateness |
释义 | legitimatenessn. The quality or condition of being legitimate; legitimacy. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > [noun] > legality or conformity with the law leefulnessc1449 legality1502 lawfulness1530 legitimateness1618 legitimacy1625 legalness1631 licitness1788 legitimity1815 1618 P. Holderus tr. J. van Oldenbarneveld Barneuel's Apol. sig. D If New-kerke..will giue you a Testimonie of your legitimatenesse [L. integritatis], I will easily beleeue it. 1664 H. More Apol. in Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 536 They cannot make the least scruple concerning the legitimateness of the Instrument. a1677 I. Barrow Treat. Pope's Supremacy (1680) 352 The Fathers of Constantinople..highly asserting the legitimateness of his Ordination. 1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Legitimacy or Legitimateness, Truth, Lawfulness, Righteousness, Justness, the being born in Wedlock. 1831 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 45 181 Babeuf..maintained the merit and the legitimateness of the Constitution of 1793. 1884 J. J. Lalor Cycl. Polit. Sci. III. 178/1 It had at least aroused a doubt concerning the legitimateness of ecclesiastical supremacy. 1920 P. G. Wodehouse Jill the Reckless xiv. 209 The austere legitimateness of ‘The Rose of America’ gave him a pain in the neck. 1961 G. Devereux Mohave Ethnopsychiatry & Suicide vii. 304 It had lost faith in the legitimateness of the system that had created it and supported it. 2002 Econ. Press. Rev. (Nexis) 21 Aug. A referendum about the legitimateness of the political policy and basic principals of the Constitution. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1618 |
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