legitimize

Synonyms for legitimize

verb legalize

verb. authorize, enable

verb. authorize, enable

verb. authorize, enable

verb. legalize

verb. ascertain the truth, authenticity of something

1795, from Latin legitimus (see legitimate) + -ize. Earlier was legitimatize (1791). Related: Legitimized; legitimizing.

Very well; I'll legitimize him by marrying the young Clementine.

No easy-going doctrines, then, to legitimize vice, says Ozanam.

If the woman has won you round to legitimize the connection, first, I've a proper claim to see her marriage lines.

He did not dare ask Charity for a divorce in order that he might legitimize this byblow of his.

It is time, if they are well founded, to give a solemn stamp to their certainty, and legitimize their existence.

Except as a solemn, sacred rite, there was nothing in our marriage to legitimize our child.

Huysmans it was who gently persuaded Villiers to make a deathbed marriage and legitimize his son.

A wit, or would-be wit, said of him that he postulated God in order to legitimize the powers of Augustin, his deputy.

Thus marriage, as I understand the spirit of the Spanish law, seems to be a simple contract to legitimize and license procreation.

To legitimize this child she arranged a marriage with Marsay, a bankrupt old gentleman of tarnished reputation.