Definition of "legitimated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of legitimate. (verb)

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• "My son has three illegitimate children, two boys and a girl; but only one of them is legitimated, that is, his son by Mademoiselle de Seri, a lady of noble family, and who was my Maid of Honour."
• "Political philosophers from Plato to Hobbes saw society organized primarily through what might be called legitimated threat."
• "The distinctions of idea referred to are such as these; which any one will see to be legitimated Conceptions legitimated. in the exposition now traced — legitimated, that is, as conceptions, though not established as existing facts."