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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of legitimate.

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Examples

  • By feeding these "legitimates" to the proverbial lions of discrimination, the PMs will show the rest of the country just how hollow their claims of "righteousness" are.

    So How Magnanimous Will The Protect Marriage people Be Now? 2009

  • After that there was a revue of all the burlesques and comic operas, then the curtain was raised from the middle of the stage, and Nellie Farren was discovered seated at a table on a high stage with all the "legitimates" in frock-coats and walking dresses rising on benches around her.

    Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis 1917

  • After that there was a revue of all the burlesques and comic operas, then the curtain was raised from the middle of the stage, and Nellie Farren was discovered seated at a table on a high stage with all the "legitimates" in frock-coats and walking dresses rising on benches around her.

    Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • "legitimates" in frock-coats and walking dresses rising on benches around her.

    Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 1917

  • The intensity of people who believe in that issue, doesn't translate into 'this is the thing that legitimates the administration spending its time on that issue'.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Mia 2009

  • Donors frightened by the prospect of further violence may loosen their purse strings, governments in power are unable to exercise their full sovereignty, and at least some people are interested in change – giving these outside actors the kind of "buy-in" that legitimates their presence.

    Ivory Coast's development failures | Mike McGovern 2011

  • Here also the objective was the same, namely to reinforce the feeling of community through the creation of the image of the enemy that put the creation of the “new man” and of a “justice and free socialist society” in danger … And the “critic” [Azagaia], as is natural, criticizes with an attitude that all which is not well among us legitimates [him].

    Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias 2009

  • We cannot condone people who use violent rhetoric and the dehumanization of public servants to create an environment that both legitimates hatred and tempts unstable personalities to engage in violent acts.

    Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Needed: Dr. King in Tucson Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater 2011

  • "The problem here is that this policy of the U.S. still legitimates the position of Bashar al-Assad, and isn't commensurate with the position of the people demonstrating in the streets," said Ammar Abdulhamid, a Washington-based activist.

    Syrian Violence Tests U.S. Jay Solomon 2011

  • The intensity of people who believe in that issue, doesn't translate into 'this is the thing that legitimates the administration spending its time on that issue'.

    Clay Shirky on 'mass internet collaboration' at London's ICA Mia 2009

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