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Example sentences for "legitimately"

Lexicographically close words:
legit; legitima; legitimacy; legitimate; legitimated; legitimates; legitimation; legitimatized; legitime; legitimise
  1. Nevertheless, we can legitimately think that there was another reason which induced orthodox Christians to regard the Revelation with less confidence.

  2. We cannot legitimately argue that he was the first and only coiner of such words and ideas.

  3. To find out what could legitimately be bought in France, and to buy it, paying no more for it than could be avoided by wise purchasing, General Pershing created a General Purchasing Board in Paris late in August.

  4. When the motive is conventional or otherwise insipid, or even when its character is distinctly light without being trivial, they are legitimately enough agreeable.

  5. And painting, in a wide sense, is just as legitimately the expression of ideas in form and color as literature is the expression of ideas in words.

  6. Almost contemporaneously with the German-English controversy with reference to the restrictions which might legitimately be put upon German mail steamers Great Britain and the United States became involved in a lengthy correspondence.

  7. Now, sir, from that doctrine, which probably had its origin in the resolutions of 1798, the whole of their policy to this day has legitimately followed.

  8. Hence they legitimately find a place in the present examination.

  9. And I say that any possible proposition is legitimately constructed, and, if it has no sense, that can only be because we have failed to give a meaning to some of its constituents.

  10. Frege says that any legitimately constructed proposition must have a sense.

  11. Perhaps the most legitimately interesting phase of this speculation relates to the future of these qualities and instincts in human nature which we now call evil and vicious.

  12. The new regulation had good results, restricting, as was desired, the number of periodical publications not legitimately entitled to the privilege.

  13. He conceived her, as he found her in the incomplete chronicles he consulted, as a Matriarch, a wonderful and heroic elderly woman around whom all the hopes of an embittered patriotism were legitimately centred.

  14. In all this it would be a mistake to see anything directly autobiographical, although so much in the character and position of Solness may remind us, legitimately enough, of Ibsen himself, and his adventures.

  15. Their effect is less likely to be permanently pleasing than that of almost any other thing legitimately among the resources of the story-teller.

  16. It is always a means and never legitimately an end.

  17. Fugitive English couples generally made the necessary declaration before a blacksmith at Gretna-Green, who was also justice of the peace in this small border village, and were then legitimately married people according to Scottish law.

  18. The resort of Royalty’ to the gardens was legitimately inferred from the fact that the grounds were at the back of Brunswick House, the former residence of the Duke of Brunswick.

  19. Therefore, he may legitimately claim to rule the land for another.

  20. As years went by, and all the means of legitimately working for the improvement of German public life were one after another extinguished, men of ardent character thought of more violent methods.

  21. Not a few of these are of a nature to make any man most legitimately proud.

  22. It is intelligible that a Secret Service Fund should be legitimately required, perhaps, by the Foreign Office of a country like France.

  23. Legitimately practiced, discriminately carried on according to the law of man and nature, it is even more admirable than angling and far more honorable than the wasteful pursuit of the vulgar amateur fisherman.

  24. No, sir; and though the hand-line fisherman may honestly take half the ocean's yield, still his pursuit and his catch cannot equal and cannot be legitimately compared to the code and the creel of the competent Angler.

  25. Easy writers are those who, like Walter Scott, choose to remain contented with a less degree of perfection than is legitimately within the compass of their powers.

  26. And there are many luxuries that we may legitimately prefer to it, such as a grateful conscience, a country life, or the woman of our inclination.

  27. The direction of the expenditures of the fund legitimately belongs to the local Agent who is alone supposed to know the amount and description of articles necessary to be purchased for the Indians, hence Gen'l Pike's letter.

  28. He had no funds that he could use legitimately for the need that had arisen.

  29. The provisions against intruders were legitimately severe, those of the United States had never been severe enough.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legitimately" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    genuinely; honestly; naturally; really; truly