legitimate
adjective
according to law; lawful.
legitimated
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past participleof legitimate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof legitimate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
Example Sentences
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The market was legitimated by its own success, as experienced in people's daily lives.
From Salon ● May 7, 2020
Sometimes efforts to appease racism in the electorate have deprived fascists of support; in other cases they have legitimated fascism.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2017
No. No, the only absolutely clear legacy of JFK’s slaying is that it legitimated the conspiracy theorists.
From Time ● Nov. 19, 2013
The end of the legitimated spammers in a double bind of filtering and changes to the law was one rumble in spam’s tectonic shift toward an almost wholly criminal domain.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2013
He married a legitimated daughter of Louis XIV.,
From Louis Philippe Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
