legitimatized
Example Sentences
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This comically highfalutin self-presentation would be familiar to Kraftwerk, the German act that, in the seventies, legitimatized electronic music, sending an enduring shock wave through popular culture.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019
And the popularity of the match legitimatized his new persona: at the time, De La Hoya vs.
From The New Yorker ● May 18, 2015
It’s unfortunate that Sony reacted to the hacking as it did, since North Korea has now been legitimatized in a new way: as a cyberwar threat.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2014
Panayotis Kanellopoulos, the Premier from whom the colonels took power, stated at the trial that no less a figure than former King Constantine had legitimatized the junta's rule.
From Time Magazine Archive
Illegitimate Children.—Such children are legitimatized by the subsequent marriage of their parents, although in order to acquire the legal rights of legitimate children they must be formally recognized by their parents.
From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Hyacinthe Ringrose
