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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To legitimate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To legitimate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To legitimate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
legitimate . - verb To
legalize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make legal
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Examples
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'legitimatize' reason to make its products better, as if profit itself isn't reason enough?
The Rule of Reason 2010
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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.
June « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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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.
Robert Eisenman: Abrahamic Conversion Robert Eisenman 2011
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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.
Robert Eisenman: Abrahamic Conversion Robert Eisenman 2011
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Again, in other words, they were using it to legitimatize themselves over the other lines.
Robert Eisenman: Abrahamic Conversion Robert Eisenman 2011
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This is what I told the Russians: we came here to ward off foreign intervention, not to legitimatize it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Again, in other words, they were using it to legitimatize themselves over the other lines.
Robert Eisenman: Abrahamic Conversion Robert Eisenman 2011
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