legitimation

and coeditor of State and Society in 21st-Century China: Crisis, Contention, and Legitimation (2004).

This new institution of monarchy required the invention of a new legitimation of authority beyond the tribal justification of chieftainship based on concepts of kinship and responsibility.

the legitimation of a new government

seeking legitimation for their business

the legitimation of a signature

obtaining legitimation for a document

the legitimation of a child

legal legitimation of a marriage

the legitimation of a claim

striving for legitimation in society

the legitimation of authority

the legitimation of power