self-legitimation

noun

The act of legitimizing one's actions.

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Meanings

nounself-legitimation (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe act of legitimizing one's actions.

    Sluiter examines a tension inherent in such scholarly works as lexica, scholia, epitomai, and commentaries: although the very titles of these works claim no more than secondary status, their authors engage nonetheless in a rhetoric of self-legitimation.

    2000, Mary Depew, Dirk Obbink, Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 10, →ISBN

Origin

From self- + legitimation.

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APA

self-legitimation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-legitimation

MLA

“self-legitimation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-legitimation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “self-legitimation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-legitimation.

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