Wiktionary
vb. (standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling legitimize English)
WordNet
v. make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized" [syn: legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimatise] [ant: outlaw, outlaw, outlaw, outlaw]
Usage examples of "legitimise".
They generate the very hate that legitimises their hate, which generated the hate in the first place.
A killer on a battlefield, legitimised by war for which, he knew, he had a talent.
They lived together in the country for some time, and a son was born to them, whom the father legitimised by subsequently marrying the mother.
It was seen as a means of consolidating support for the revolution among the more politically backward sections of the middle class and the peasantry, of legitimising the achievements of the soviets among all strata and in every corner of the country.
While sheltering these self-justifying figures within elaborate trusts, while legitimising subterranean floods of cash, I immersed myself within a familiar atmosphere of pious denial.