It is really a safeguard of the legitimacy of the children of the then heir to the throne.
The affair, which in some scenes was melodramatic enough, possibly led to questions about the validity of Mary's own marriage and the legitimacy of her children.
One of the party said that her son's legitimacy would be imperilled.
Mary always had a plausible and possible excuse: in this case she could not dissolve her marriage with Bothwell without destroying thelegitimacy of her expected offspring.
And it is of the greatest importance to religion that these presuppositions and postulates should have their legitimacy and validity vindicated.
A truly scientific view of nature can easily enter into or allow the legitimacy of this idea.
In all quarters people proclaimed the imminence of revolution, the dictatorship of the King, and the legitimacy of coups d'état.
Montmorency, with thoughtless candour, "you love legitimacy as we do the Charter.
The court thought it necessary, now in an after-game to offer some satisfaction in that point [of the legitimacy of the Prince of Wales].
Oath of mother required before legitimacy registered, in the island of Kalymna.
The genius and the virtues of Berryer are indeed the loftiest claims modern French legitimacy can offer to the respect of posterity.
The legitimacy of Elizabeth's birth depended on the invalidity of Henry's first marriage, and Shakspeare has placed the proceedings respecting his separation from Catharine of Arragon in a very doubtful light.
We will employ the legitimacy of our government and our cause to craft strong and agile partnerships.
But more: to question Mary's legitimacywas to throw open the question of succession to half a dozen ambitious competitors.
To throw into dispute, by any conduct of hers, the legitimacy of her own offspring, argued a levity or a hard- heartedness which of itself deserved the severest punishment.
Legitimacy of our demand to be essential in the Universe, 33.
But the fact is that Edward and his father had all their lives been engaged in endeavouring, by all the force of their talents and the resources of their kingdom, to destroy legitimacy in the person of the King of France.
In a great council at Paris it was at length decided that the legitimacy of the two marriages should be submitted to the Pope, and that the contest should pause till his decision was received.
The ultimate theory of the English lawyers took no heed of good or bad faith, and made the legitimacy of the children depend on the fact that their parents while living were never divorced.
To maintain the contrary is to endeavour to base the legitimacy of individual appropriation on a subtilty, or rather on a paradox.
We have just seen that this definition has led them to cast a serious doubt on the legitimacy of property in land, and, by consequence, in capital; and they have only been stopped short on this fatal road by an inconsistency.
You must either admit the legitimacy of this demand, or reject your own principle--the /mutuality of services/.
To explain their legitimacy we have no need to have recourse to philosophy, or jurisprudence, or metaphysics.
We thus see that all transmissions of services from one point of time or of space to another repose upon this datum, that /to accord delay is to render service/; in other words, they repose on the legitimacy of Interest.
The legitimacy of individual appropriation was not formerly contested, but this is no longer the case.
But since the legitimacy of interest has been contested so [p203] seriously in our day as to put capital to flight, or force it to conceal itself, I may be permitted to show how utterly foolish and insensate this controversy is.
It was the bishop of Tarbes, the French ambassador, who begot the first scruples in my conscience by his doubts on the legitimacy of the princess Mary.
If in her husband’s room at the bank legitimism was a mere unpopulated principle, in her salon Legitimacy was nothing but persons.
Dominic’s general scorn for the beliefs, and activities, and abilities of upper-class people covered the Principle of Legitimacy amply; but he could not resist the opportunity to exercise his special faculties in a field he knew of old.
He wanted to see the very ground on which the Principle of Legitimacy was actually asserting itself arms in hand.
The Fathers of the Church never called in question the validity or the legitimacy of such Baptisms.
Her legitimacy before the world depended on the success of the new religion, which had legalized her father’s divorce from Catherine.
Shu Han tried to buy the assistance of the Tibetans and with their aid to carry out a decisive attack on Wei, whose dynastic legitimacy was not recognized by Shu Han.
The second argument was provided by the rigid conceptions of legitimacy to which the Turkish-Hunnic aristocratic society adhered.
But there is still one question which must be fully cleared up;--and this is the legitimacy of the young man’s birth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legitimacy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
