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Definition of Legitimising
1. legitimise [v] - See also: legitimise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimising
Literary usage of Legitimising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Investing in Biological Diversity: The Cairns Conference : Proceedings of by OECD Staff (1997)
"External actors can often play an important role in legitimising local-level
resource management systems by bringing them to the attention of others. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"Buckingham first suggested the plan of divorce, and afterwards that of legitimising
Monmouth. In 1670, in support of the former project, a bill was brought ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1878)
"... of great importance in legitimising and giving lawful effect to the enterprise
of our own countrymen, and which will powerfully help to raise the state ..."
4. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1905)
"The analysis which was in truth legitimising and purifying knowledge seemed to
them absolutely to blast it, and the closer they came to the bed-rock of ..."
5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1903)
"Should Lothair succeed in legitimising his second marriage, he was to be left
under the impression that Lewis had been instrumental in furthering his wishes ..."
6. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1905)
"The analysis which was in truth legitimising and purifying knowledge seemed to
them absolutely to blast it, and the closer they came to the bed-rock of ..."
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