legitimize
verb (used with object)
to make legitimate.
legitimizing
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present participleof legitimize.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Rather than serving as "an impartial chronographic work," the researchers suggest it may instead have functioned as "a legitimizing canon of kings, which was periodically updated to remove short-lived or parallel Neo-Assyrian rulers."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Quantum companies are also legitimizing themselves by continuing to execute on the technology development milestones in their public road maps, said John McPeake, senior research analyst at Rosenblatt Securities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
Yet the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior had the unexpected effect of legitimizing Greenpeace in the eyes of many people around the world.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
The rest of the culture was already partly there, what with our jokes identifying close co-workers as work spouses and the many TV shows legitimizing the concept of the office family.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2025
And so his texts played a decisive role in legitimizing the new post-Kuhnian history of science because they were wrongly read as endorsing a thoroughgoing relativism.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
