legitimize
verb (used with object)
to make legitimate.
legitimatize,
-
a variation of
legitimize.
Example Sentences
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Through these decades of controversy over expert knowledge, challengers have continually invoked the label of science, with its connotations of facts and truth, to legitimatize as well as delegitimatize public action.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2018
The Golden Bears have never beaten the Longhorns in five meetings between the two schools, and a win by Cal against a high-profile program would legitimatize the team’s 2-0 start.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2015
He married her, he explained, not because he thought it was his social duty but because he wanted to legitimatize his son to succeed to the Russell earldom.
From Time Magazine Archive
It gives them an umbrella to legitimatize their pathology.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Pope, however, who had at first called that marriage "a public disgrace," granted him a divorce from his former wife to legitimatize the new union.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld
