Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To legitimate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To legitimate.
Wiktionary
- v. To make legitimate.
- v. To legalize.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To legitimate.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make legal
Examples
“legitimatize' reason to make its products better, as if profit itself isn't reason enough?”
“Then, when others come out with their own Wave servers, there will be some competition for Google, but not much … not until a big player jumps on the bandwagon, like Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, AOL, etc … This would simultaneously compete with Google AND legitimatize the protocol.”
“These people are just out to de-legitimatize Obama in any way they can ... even if it calls for outright lying which is what they are doing.”
“This is what I told the Russians: we came here to ward off foreign intervention, not to legitimatize it.”
The Wall Street Journal: Syria Opposition Leader Interview Transcript
“The most important thing he did for me was to legitimatize manly courage, a quality that I had heard, until I came on his work, extolled by Scoutmasters and others who made it seem a fraud.”
“Again, in other words, they were using it to legitimatize themselves over the other lines.”
“In other words, like many things we now recognize as Jewish or Judaism, it is a Herodian imposition or appendage and a product of the Herodian Period -- in this case, to legitimatize this one line of the descendants of Herod who could at least claim some legitimacy via his "Jewish" wife Mariammne/Miriam/Mary.”
“When Fu Youde wrote to ask the Duans to surrender, Duan Shi, the chief of the Duans, cited historical experience to legitimatize his claim for autonomy.”
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
“In China, relating current polices to past leaders helps legitimatize current policies, and Li stressed the Party's long-held devotion to learning.”
“Such cultures became the primary basis of emerging nationalities that serve to legitimatize present American governments.”
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