self-legitimation

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ legitimation.

Noun

self-legitimation (uncountable)

  1. The act of legitimizing one's actions.
    • 2000, Mary Depew, Dirk Obbink, Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 10, →ISBN:
      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.
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