0 present participle of legitimize --
1 to make something legal or acceptable: --
The government fears that talking to terrorists might legitimize their violent actions.
Consequently, the legitimizing force of consent and the legitimacy-threatening force of dissent get lost.
Networks of relationships, which had as their purpose the transfer of potency, developed; underpinning, legitimizing and replacing material bases of association.
The legitimizing idea is that such separation makes for more effective language acquisition, not that a distinct group requires special treatment.
I suggest, that the legitimizing process concerning policy practice can be interpreted as a positive feedback procedure.
The state hoped for better oversight over religious expression in the country by legitimizing cer tain aspects of it and establishing bureaucratic control over it.
Again, their role was not limited to discussing security issues, but also to legitimizing the talks.
They refer to the divine office that the bearer held and to his socially defined person, legitimizing the person before society.
These pedigrees certainly served the purpose of legitimizing the power of the kings whose ancestry they claimed to trace.
