Self-legitimation
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of legitimizing one's actions. uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From self- + legitimation.
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