legitimatized

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

This comically highfalutin self-presentation would be familiar to Kraftwerk, the German act that, in the seventies, legitimatized electronic music, sending an enduring shock wave through popular culture.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

And the popularity of the match legitimatized his new persona: at the time, De La Hoya vs.

From The New Yorker • May 18, 2015

It’s unfortunate that Sony reacted to the hacking as it did, since North Korea has now been legitimatized in a new way: as a cyberwar threat.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2014

Though he warns that ,the human implications of truth are tragic, he does not condemn the pursuit of happiness which modern civilization, more than any other, has legitimatized.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Chevalier first, that meddling son of the left-hand whom his father had had legitimatized; then the vicomte and the poet.

From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell