legitimatize

Example Sentences

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Through these decades of controversy over expert knowledge, challengers have continually invoked the label of science, with its connotations of facts and truth, to legitimatize as well as delegitimatize public action.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2018

The Golden Bears have never beaten the Longhorns in five meetings between the two schools, and a win by Cal against a high-profile program would legitimatize the team’s 2-0 start.

From Washington Times • Sep. 15, 2015

He married her, he explained, not because he thought it was his social duty but because he wanted to legitimatize his son to succeed to the Russell earldom.

From Time Magazine Archive

It gives them an umbrella to legitimatize their pathology.

From Time Magazine Archive

He proposed that I should marry him to take care of him and legitimatize our child.

From A Ward of the Golden Gate by Harte, Bret