Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - legitimize
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Legitimize
legitimize
(legitimizes, legitimizing, legitimized) Note: The spellings 'legitimise' in British English, and 'legitimatize' in American English are also used. To legitimize something, especially something bad, means to officially allow it, approve it, or make it seem acceptable. (FORMAL) They will accept no agreement that legitimizes the ethnic division of the country... = sanction VERB: V n
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transitive verb (-mized; -mizing) Date: 1848 to make legitimate ; legitimate • legitimization noun • ~r noun LEGITIMIZER noun see legitimize ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. (also -ise) 1 make legitimate. 2 serve as a justification for. Derivatives legitimization n. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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also -ise BrE v 1 to make something that is unfair or morally wrong seem acceptable and right (Mussolini's use of symbols from ancient Rome to try to legitimize Fascist policies) 2 to make something official or legal that had not been before 3 to make a child legitimate1 (3) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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