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legitimacy
[li-jit-uh-muh-see]
Other 51Թ Forms
- nonlegitimacy noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of legitimacy1
Example Sentences
The legitimacy of her abilities has been constantly assessed and analyzed, and when one of her films is a failure, the blame typically rests on Johnson’s shoulders.
Do’s crimes, the prosecutors wrote, were “an assault on the very legitimacy of government.”
A broad and increasingly bitter gap has opened up between the US and Europe over the Gaza war, and over the legitimacy of criticising Israel's conduct.
For fascists, what the leader wants is more legitimacy than legality, because while the former was the result of a cult of heroism and leadership principle, the latter was regarded as artificial and even boring.
Doing so would lend a dangerous legitimacy to the corrosive behavior of the administration and its supporters when it comes to the rule of law.
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