Crossword clues for legitimation
legitimation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Legitimation \Le*git`i*ma"tion\ (-m[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [Cf. F. l['e]gitimation.]
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The act of making legitimate.
The coining or legitimation of money.
--East. Lawful birth. [R.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French légitimation, from Medieval Latin legitimationem (nominative legitimatio), noun of action from past participle stem of legitimare (see legitimate (adj.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of making or declaring a person legitimate. 2 (context obsolete English) legitimacy. 3 The act of establishing something as lawful; authorization.
WordNet
n. the act of rendering a person legitimate; "he has filial rights because he obtained letters of legitimation from the king"; "his parents' subsequent marriage resulted in his legitimation"
the act of making lawful [syn: legalization, legalisation]
Wikipedia
Legitimation or legitimization is the act of providing legitimacy. Legitimation in the social sciences refers to the process whereby an act, process, or ideology becomes legitimate by its attachment to norms and values within a given society. It is the process of making something acceptable and normative to a group or audience.
Legitimate power is the right to exercise control over others by virtue of the authority of one's superior organization position or status.
Usage examples of "legitimation".
Important segments of the discipline of history were also deeply embedded in the scholarly and popular production of alterity, and thus also in the legitimation of colonial rule.
The experience of social repression and arbitrariness had to be balanced with legitimations of domination.