Sanctioned; valid

Usage examples of legitimate.

Though it was clearly a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, its Federalist proponents in Congress insisted, like Adams, that it was a war measure, and an improvement on the existing common law in that proof of the truth of the libel could be used as a legitimate defense.

The burghers of the Transvaal and of the late Orange Free State were legitimate belligerents, and to be treated as such--a statement which does not, of course, extend to the Afrikander rebels who were their allies.

If Allo and his crew were really legitimate, then it would just be a nuisance.

Sometimes he calls himself Ambar of Kotuwhen he wants to have dealings that are not, strictly speaking, legitimate.

Do not forget that the trade is a legitimate form of commerce that only an Act of Parliament can put an end to.

How may we know what is done to the animals thus traced to the door of every laboratory without being charged with impeding the legitimate researches of science?

What the merchants and other legitimate business travelers who used the road during the day would make of it was another problem, Anse thought.

Or was it a legitimate ploy to give Eugene the same advantage that Crush Bonbon hadaccesss to public opinion?

Crescent was some kind of a clearinghouse for him--a way to make his illegal payoffs look legitimate.

The legitimate aspiration and tendency of science is to eliminate craniotomy on the living and viable child from obstetric practice.

He looked down to discover that Cymry had brought him to the little gate in the Palace walls used by all the Trainees on legitimate business, and the Gate Guard was looking up at him with a hint of suspicion.

If those who hold the common doctrine of a carnal resurrection should carry it out with philosophical consistency, by extending the scheme it involves to all existing planetary races as well as to their own, should they cause that process of imagination which produced this doctrine to go on to its legitimate completion, they would see in the final consummation the sundered earths approach each other, and firmaments conglobe, till at last the whole universe concentred in one orb.

At one time, in modernity, this monopoly was legitimated either as the expropriation of weapons from the violent and anarchic mob, the disordered mass of individuals who tend to slaughter one another, or as the instrument of def ense against the enemy, that is, against other peoples organized in states.

It extends to those activities intrastate which so affect interstate commerce, or the exertion of the power of Congress over it, as to make regulation of them appropriate means to the attainment of a legitimate end, the effective execution of the granted power to regulate interstate commerce.

And while one would never suggest or encourage the adoption of extralegal resistance of what, after all, will be a legitimate, properly approved world government, it also behooves us to resist the potential abuse of power by the cabal which has obviously come together to secure the Ternathian domination of the entire explored multiverse.