legitimation

Legitimation or legitimation (from the Latin lex "law, justification") stands for:

• generally the justification of actually existing orders and rules, see legitimacy
• legally a power of attorney, authentication, authorization or ID or other proof of authorization, see active legitimation and passive legitimation
• the process of generating social and legal norms and ensuring their legitimacy, see legitimation through procedures
• Legitimation (political science) , especially the justification of a state for its actions
• obtaining the legal status of a child's marital status, see illegitimacy

See also:

• List of all Wikipedia articles whose title begins with legitimate

Wiktionary: Legitimation  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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