DELEGITIMATIONS Antonyms

• the formal act of approving

• a feeling of liking something or someone good

• acceptance as satisfactory

• a message expressing a favorable opinion

• a document giving an official instruction or command

• the power or right to give orders or make decisions

• official permission or approval

• the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant

• the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on

• confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence

• a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts

• validating the authenticity of something or someone

• additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct

• information that confirms or verifies

• making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it

• a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism

• a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church

• a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books)

• a speech seconding a motion

• formal and explicit approval

• a signature that validates something

• the act of endorsing

• the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

• the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering

• approval

• coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

• (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape

• the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country

• an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid

• designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body

• the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something

• the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof