legitimatize
Example Sentences
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Through these decades of controversy over expert knowledge, challengers have continually invoked the label of science, with its connotations of facts and truth, to legitimatize as well as delegitimatize public action.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2018
The Golden Bears have never beaten the Longhorns in five meetings between the two schools, and a win by Cal against a high-profile program would legitimatize the team’s 2-0 start.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2015
But anthropocentric arguments legitimatize the notion that species must justify their right to exist by proving their utility to man.
From Time Magazine Archive
He married her, he explained, not because he thought it was his social duty but because he wanted to legitimatize his son to succeed to the Russell earldom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like them, like the Incas, the pharaohs were of the solar race and so remained from the first dynasty to the Greek conquest, when Alexander, to legitimatize his sovereignty, had himself acknowledged as Amon's son.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar
