verb transitiveWord forms: leˈgitimaˌtized or leˈgitimaˌtizing
legitimize
legitimatize in American English
(lɪˈdʒɪtəməˌtaiz)
transitive verbWord forms: -tized, -tizing
to make legitimate
Alsoesp Britlegitimatise
Word origin
[1785–95; legitimate + -ize]
Examples of 'legitimatize' in a sentence
legitimatize
The research results legitimatize the proposed approach.
Michał Juszczyk, Agnieszka Leśniak, Krzysztof Zima 2018, 'ANN Based Approach for Estimation of Construction Costs of Sports Fields', Complexityhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7952434. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
To legitimatize his arguments, he deployed several rhetoric strategies, including victimization, presupposition, authority, number game, evidentiality,polarization, and populism.
Mohsin Hassan Khan, Hamedi Mohd Adnan, Surinderpal Kaur, Rashid Ali Khuhro, RohailAsghar, Sahira Jabeen 2019, 'Muslims' Representation in Donald Trump's Anti-Muslim-Islam Statement: A CriticalDiscourse Analysis', Religionshttps://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/2/115. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)