Definitions
Rightful status, validity, or accepted authority.
Word origin
From legitimate + -cy.
Used in a sentence
“The legitimacy based on a revolutionary essence was replaced by legitimacy with an ultranational, ultra-Yugoslav character.”
“Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. warned that if the court failed to stop the president, its own “institutional legitimacy” would be threatened.”
“After decades of inequality and oppression, the regime had lost legitimacy with its own population.”
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