legitimatize

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It eliminated a rule requiring television stations to maintain at least one local studio in licensed markets, essentially legitimatizing Sinclair’s centralized news model.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018

This will likely be the most closely watched bitcoin sale in history, further legitimatizing bitcoin as a legal asset. 

From Forbes • Jun. 16, 2014

They handle every church problem from heresies to legitimatizing births.

From Time Magazine Archive

His elder brother George had married Actress Edith Kingdon, by whom he had seven children, and after her death in 1921 married British Actress Guinevere Sinclair, legitimatizing three other children he had had by her.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Judiciary Committee of the Senate brought in a bill legitimatizing the offspring of plural marriages to a certain date; also authorizing the president to grant amnesty for past offenses against the law of 1862.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady