legitimatized

They created and then legitimatized a radical fantasy — an anti-democratic one, to overturn a free and fair election.

By giving these like-minded traditionalists a name, Bazilian legitimatized a movement.

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.

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

In their view, polygamy, which in some instances amounts to nothing more than promiscuity, is legitimatized through the word of God, as the Quran pronounces it permissible.