legitimate

[see also: justify, meaningful]

Theorem 2 makes it legitimate to apply integration by parts.

The definition is legitimate, because ......

The interchange in the order of integration was legitimate, since ......

In the preceding proof, the appeal to the dominated convergence theorem may seem to be illegitimate, since ......



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