Definition of Legitimizing

1. Verb. (present participle of legitimize) ¹

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Definition of Legitimizing

1. legitimize [v] - See also: legitimize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimizing

legitimisers
legitimises
legitimising
legitimism
legitimisms
legitimist
legitimists
legitimity
legitimization
legitimizations
legitimize
legitimized
legitimizer
legitimizers
legitimizes
legitimizing (current term)
legitims
legits
leglan
leglans
leglen
leglens
legless
legless lizard
leglessly
leglessness
leglet
leglets
leglike
leglin

Literary usage of Legitimizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Communities, Livelihoods and Natural Resources: Action Research And Policy by Stephen R. Tyler (2006)
"... accommodation and community- based natural resource management: legitimizing the enclosure of a community fishery in southern Laos Nattaya ..."

2. The American Phonographic Dictionary: Exhibiting the Correct and Actual by Elias Longley (1882)
"... Legitimist j Legitimize) Leg-ged Legitimized Leggin ) Legging)' legitimizing Leg-bail Legume Legacy Leguminous Legal-ism Leisure-ly Legalist Lemma ix^~^ ..."

3. Laws Passed by the General Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico by New Mexico (1870)
"AN ACT Establishing a system of legitimizing or Adoption of children or heirs in this Territory. Be it enacted by, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory ..."

4. Diplomat's Dictionary by Charles W. Freeman, Jr. (1995)
"[and] is constructed in the name of a legitimizing principle. ... It is the legitimizing principle which establishes the relative 'justice' of claims and ..."

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