"self-legitimation" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "self-",
        "3": "legitimation"
      },
      "expansion": "self- + legitimation",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From self- + legitimation.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "self-legitimation (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with self-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Mary Depew, Dirk Obbink, Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 10, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of legitimizing one's actions."
      ],
      "id": "en-self-legitimation-en-noun-iRoU-cIC",
      "links": [
        [
          "legitimizing",
          "legitimize"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "self-legitimation"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "self-",
        "3": "legitimation"
      },
      "expansion": "self- + legitimation",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From self- + legitimation.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "self-legitimation (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with self-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Mary Depew, Dirk Obbink, Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 10, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of legitimizing one's actions."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "legitimizing",
          "legitimize"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "self-legitimation"
}