- past tense form of legitimize.
- past participle of legitimize.
legitimized
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
The genre doesn’t need to be legitimized by awards voting bodies because it already has a growing army of dedicated viewers, curious enough to roll the dice and spend their hard-earned cash on risk-taking filmmaking.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2025
Medieval belts also managed a celebration of the pregnant silhouette, but devotion to Mary rather than patriotic “populationism” legitimized it.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
Historically, Levin said, it would be harder for an individual to have an obscure ideology validated and legitimized and gain the knowledge to carry out such an attack.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025
At least as important, King morally and politically legitimized a youth-led agenda of confrontational social change that would define one of the most crucial decades of the American Century.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
