different between lawful vs legitimation

English

Alternative forms

• lawfull (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English laweful, equivalent to law +? -ful, conflated with Middle English leful, leeful, leveful (“according to law, lawful, pertaining to law”). See also leveful.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??f?l/
• Rhymes: -??f?l

Adjective

lawful (comparative more lawful, superlative most lawful)

1. (law) Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society.

   Lawful money is always a land asset and can only be issued by an actual land jurisdiction government — not a corporation.

   Synonyms: just, legal, legitimate, licit

   Antonyms: nonlawful, unlawful

2. Operating according to some law or fundamental principle.

Related terms

• lawfully
• lawfulness

Translations

Noun

lawful (plural lawfuls)

1. (role-playing games) A character having a lawful alignment.

Anagrams

• awfull

Middle English

Adjective

lawful

1. Alternative form of laweful

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin legitimatio, legitimationem, from to legitimate, from Latin legitimus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l?d??t??me??(?)n/

Noun

legitimation (usually uncountable, plural legitimations)

1. The process of making or declaring a person legitimate.
2. (obsolete) Legitimacy.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King John, First Folio 1623, I.1:

     I am not Sir Roberts sonne, / I haue disclaim'd Sir Robert and my land, / Legitimation, name, and all is gone [...].

3. The act of establishing something as lawful; authorization.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 231:

     Le Paige established a legitimation for the Parlement's authority which was part history, part romantic fiction, and part political wishful thinking.

Synonyms

• legitimization

Translations

Swedish

Etymology

legitim +? -tion

Noun

legitimation c

1. an ID card or other means of identification

Declension

Synonyms

• leg / legg
• identifikation

See also

• legitimera