legitimated

Meaning

of Legitimate

Examples

These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations. C. Wright Mills

Since all power from the seventh century on was only legitimated by religion, political forces and economic interests pushed for the fabrication of false traditions. Fatema Mernissi

Casimir managed to have Anne and Cunigunde legitimated by Pope Urban V on 5 December 1369. Source: Internet

Harrison has also suggested that literal readings of the Genesis narratives of the Creation and Fall motivated and legitimated scientific activity in seventeenth-century England. Source: Internet

Hedwig the younger was legitimated by Pope Gregory XI on 11 October 1371. Source: Internet

Processes of globalization carried religious cosmologies – including traditional conceptions of universalism – to the corners of the world, while these cosmologies legitimated processes of globalization. Source: Internet