Sentence examples for legitimate definition from inspiring English sources

Ken Jacobson, the associate national director of the Anti-Defamation League, saidefiningng anti-Semitism as "opposition to Zionism" was "close enough to be a legitimate definition".

This reluctance is not due to relativism or indifference but rather to the belief that truth needs no definition to be the object of experience and that legitimate definition, when it occurs, should aim mainly at excluding error and not at pretending to reveal the truth itself that is believed to be ever present in the church.

The following stipulation is not a legitimate definition: But if it is viewed as a mere abbreviation, there is nothing illegitimate about it.

Thus, the reason why (4) is, but (6) is not, a legitimate definition is not that (4) is in normal form and (6) is not.

The mania for billion-dollar valuations is the result of the business model of the venture capital market — not some legitimate definition of startup success.

There is no legitimate definition of victory.

Nonetheless, it is noteworthy because it illustrates how general issues about meaning and concepts enter the debate on the requirements on legitimate definitions.

Indeed there are two distinct and legitimate definitions, involving different diagnostic approaches.

On the other hand, I am fully aware of the fact that these are legitimate definitions in ecology.

More generally, when is a definition legitimate?

The following proposition makes this definition legitimate.