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- noun the act of
removing thelegitimacy from something, or of making somethingillegitimate
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Examples
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Well, apparently, any positive attention paid to mothers, any social legitimation of motherhood, amounts to a delegitimation of the choice to not have children.
It’s My Motherhood, And I’ll Celebrate It If I Want To | Her Bad Mother 2009
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In addition to squandering a large part of Britain's patrimony of civilized institutions, this neo-liberal project of refashioning social life on a primitive model of market exchange has speeded the delegitimation of established institutions of such as the monarchy and the Church.
The credit crunch will do for Margaret Thatcher's reputation 2009
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The book created a storm, and Arendt was subjected to a systematic campaign of delegitimation.
Carlo Strenger: Tony Judt's Testimony on his Jewishness 2010
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The book created a storm, and Arendt was subjected to a systematic campaign of delegitimation.
Carlo Strenger: Tony Judt's Testimony on his Jewishness 2010
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Well, if there is to be an end of Israel's occupation of the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority will have to stop playing the delegitimation card.
Alan Dershowitz: How Goldstone Is Making Peace More Difficult 2010
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Well, if there is to be an end of Israel's occupation of the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority will have to stop playing the delegitimation card.
Alan Dershowitz: How Goldstone Is Making Peace More Difficult 2010
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Amazing what a relentless campaign of delegitimation and politicization yields.
You Will Learn To Genuflect And You Will Respect Me | ATTACKERMAN 2008
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All their actions out of power move toward the delegitimation of those in power.
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And indeed the terms of that victory foreshadow the rhetorical (and electoral) victories of Reaganism and the concomitant delegitimation of liberalism.
Lawrence B. Glickman: Consumer Protection Redux: The Lessons of History 2009
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Thomas Friedman, "The New York Times" columnist, writing today in "The New York Times" this: "Criticism from the far right has begun tipping over into the delegitimation and creating the same kind of climate here in the United States that existed in Israel on the eve of the Rabin assassination."
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