0 past simple and past participle of legitimize
1 to make something legal or acceptable:
The government fears that talking to terrorists might legitimize their violent actions.
His evaluation of the pervasive cultural resonance of his subjects is legitimized by histories of contemporaneous cultural institutions and comparable popular entertainers.
Both a king's self and his person had to be legitimized in ancient civilizations.
The parameters of any partnership were clearly established by the discourses emanating from, and legitimized by, the knowledge of the health professional.
Elections are not democracy, of course, but without free and fair elections you cannot have a democratically legitimized government and, hence, representative democracy.
Rather, the concern has been to show how a monarchical and autocratic regime manifested and legitimized itself in the public sphere.
Evidence suggests people contribute more to goods that are legitimized through the social contract created by majoritypeer-support voting outcomes.
Their actions legitimized the new farms but did not enhance the elders' entitlements to the remaining forest.
On the other hand, what is discursively cast as modern has often reproduced, rearticulated, and legitimized gender inequality.
