0 to make something legal or acceptable: --
The government fears that talking to terrorists might legitimize their violent actions.
1 to make something legal or acceptable --
2 to make something that is not fair or honest seem acceptable: --
He called efforts to legitimize medical marijuana "despicable".
Rather, the concern has been to show how a monarchical and autocratic regime manifested and legitimized itself in the public sphere.
Rather, the second clause is presented as a factor which legitimizes the speaker's making the speech act of an offer.
There are many who are critical of the ability of majoritarian institutions to legitimize decisions of the state.
Instead, he legitimizes his dream scenes by presenting a biographical narrative explaining the crime.
In his view all bureaucracies conceal certain kinds of politics and legitimize certain kinds of power relationships in their day-to-day operations.
In particular, the role of political parties as legitimizing agents during periods of rapid economic and social change, is crucial.
In the case of participants, the discourse has served to legitimize those linked to the environmental and traditional indigenous foci.
This report came to play a decisive role for the new government in its need to formulate and legitimize a new course of development policy.
