Usually means: Making something considered not legitimate.
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We found 5 dictionaries that define the word illegitimating:

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  1. illegitimating: Wiktionary
  2. Illegitimating, illegitimating: Dictionary.com
  3. Illegitimating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  4. Illegitimating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  5. illegitimating: FreeDictionary.org

(Note: See illegitimate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (illegitimate)

adjective:  Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
adjective:  Not in accordance with the law.
adjective:  Not sanctioned by marriage.
adjective:  Born to unmarried parents.
adjective:  (dated) Having a child or children with a person to whom one is not married.
adjective:  Not correctly deduced.
adjective:  Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
adjective:  (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
noun:  A person born to unmarried parents.
verb:  (transitive) To make illegitimate.
▸ Also see illegitimate


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