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

It gives them an umbrella to legitimatize their pathology.

From Time Magazine Archive

But anthropocentric arguments legitimatize the notion that species must justify their right to exist by proving their utility to man.

From Time Magazine Archive

Illegitimate Children.—The subsequent marriage of the parents does not in itself legitimatize such offspring.

From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Ringrose, Hyacinthe