legitimized

The network—where GOP candidates are vetted and legitimized—never forgave him.

These children could be legitimized by their father's acknowledgment before witnesses, and were often adopted.

She lived with him from December 1592 onwards, and bore him several children, who were recognized and legitimized by him.

At the same time the old shamanism was legitimized under a Buddhist reinterpretation.

Later, his father and mother married, so he was legally legitimized.

It is condoned in law—one might almost say legitimized, provided it be not found out.