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self-legitimation

self-legitimation noun: the act of legitimizing one's actions.

Noun

self-legitimation (uncountable)

  1. The 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 of self-legitimation

From self- + legitimation.

Questions about self-legitimation

What does self-legitimation mean?
Self-legitimation means the act of legitimizing one's actions.
What part of speech is self-legitimation?
Self-legitimation is a noun.

Words near self-legitimation in the dictionary

  1. self-knowledge
  2. self-knowledgeable
  3. self-lacing
  4. self-lapping
  5. self-learning
  6. self-legitimation
  7. self-licensing
  8. self-licking ice cream cone
  9. self-licking ice cream cones
  10. self-licking ice-cream cone
  11. self-licking ice-cream cones

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