Definition of "legitimately" []

• In a legitimate manner, properly. (adverb)

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• "If the University of Toronto had been so minded, it could have exploited insulin -- legitimately from the business point of view -- in all countries in the world and have secured a revenue which would have paid all the expenses of educating the 10,000 students in the University for the life of the patents."
• "It doesn't matter how many Sydney clubs may or may not have been over the cap, we were the ones who got caught, we got punished now we have to move on and win the title legitimately this year."
• "The two first exert you, by their zeal in the royal art, to follow the sublime road of which Solomon was the institutor, and Hiram of Tyre, the "supporter;" a title legitimately due to that king, who not only protected the order, but contributed with all his might to the construction of the temple (furnishing stone from Tyre, and the cedars of Lebanus) which Solomon built to the honor of the Almighty."