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Legitimatize

Legitimatize \Le*git"i*ma*tize\ (-t[imac]z), v. t. To legitimate.

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legitimatize

vb. 1 To make legitimate. 2 To legalize.

WordNet
legitimatize

v. make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized" [syn: legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise, legitimate, legitimatise] [ant: outlaw, outlaw, outlaw, outlaw]

Usage examples of "legitimatize".

And he was, besides, a stern man, who in Desai's opinion interpreted too literally the axiom that government is legitimatized coercion.

Bandits, briefly legitimatized by letters of marquee from Prost Kamenets, had come over the Silverbind.