legitimacy
legitimacy 英 [lɪ'dʒɪtɪməsɪ] 美 [lɪ'dʒɪtəməsi]
n. 合法；合理；正统
名词复数:legitimacies
- The noun legitimacy means authenticity. If you found an old copy of the Gettysburg Address in your grandmother's attic, you'd have to question its legitimacy when you realized it was written on the back of a car advertisement.
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- n. 合法；合理；正统
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1. Time, rather than intention, has given them legitimacy.
时间，而非奖项设立的意图，赋予了他们合理性。
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2. the legitimacy of the poll.
这次投票的合法性
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3. The newspaper was directly challenging the government’s legitimacy.
报纸直接质疑政府的合法性。
- legitimacy (n.) "state of being legitimate" in any sense, 1690s of children, 1812 of kings and governments, general use by 1836; see legitimate (adj.) + -cy. Legitimateness (1610s) is an earlier word for it. Middle English had legitimation (mid-15c.).
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