legitimize
Example Sentences
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The Declaration of Independence legitimized the cause of the rebels but also empowered them to brand loyalists as traitors who could be legally sentenced to death.
With such blatant motives, the press can either interrogate this relationship or help legitimize it.
From Salon
There’s nothing inherently dangerous about them, except this: Zero-dated options enshrine and legitimize gambling behaviors, which have always existed in markets, though rarely this level.
From Barron's
The picture of Russia emerging triumphant and legitimized from such a deal is, ahem, at variance with reality.
“Seeing Peggy get her Cinderella moment legitimized her as one of the romantic leads of the show,” Benton says.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
