0 present participle of legitimize
1 to make something legal or acceptable:
The government fears that talking to terrorists might legitimize their violent actions.
They also sent reverberations through the officer corps and the soldiery, damaging confidence among some and legitimizing the desire for revenge among others.
In other words, the possibility of describing certain choral compositions almost as pre-existent music provided a solution to the aesthetic problem of legitimizing the chorus.
In particular, the role of political parties as legitimizing agents during periods of rapid economic and social change, is crucial.
Experimental psychologists use it without a second thought, catalogues and handbooks rubricate it fairly consistently, and historians succeed in pinpointing its legitimizing powers.
The legislature can also play an important role in overseeing the executive branch and legitimizing its policies.
We may see this as a way of legitimizing its own views.
He suggests two strategies for legitimizing such procurement.
These pedigrees certainly served the purpose of legitimizing the power of the kings whose ancestry they claimed to trace.
