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But should a “holy alliance of legitimates” extinguish it, it will be but for a season.
This extraordinarily mixed family of legitimates and illegitimates seems to have maintained a certain kind of harmony.
His overweening pride received another shock through his new friends the legitimates.
WORD ORIGIN
1590s, from Medieval Latin legitimatus, past participle of legitimare (see legitimate (adj.)). Related: Legitimated; legitimating.
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.