legitimize

Verb

Meaning

To legitimate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

legitimate legalize legitimatize legitimise legalise decriminalize legitimatise decriminalise support allow accept explain license permit constitute
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Antonyms

block bar ban exclude embargo forbid
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Hypernyms

allow let permit countenance

Hyponyms

monetize monetise

Derivatives

legitimized legitimizing

Examples

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it. Salman Rushdie

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly. Albert Camus

The serf is in essence different from the knight, but a reference to divine right is necessary to legitimize this statutory defense. Frantz Fanon

O my dearest and most lovable thought, why should I try further to legitimize your birth? André Gide

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition. William Kirby

Just as Zionism appropriated the tragedy of the holocaust to justify its atrocities, Wiesel was to legitimize that link in much of his discourse about the colonial settlement. Joseph Massad

Close letter words and terms

legitimistic legitimity legitimization legitimizer legitly legitness