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Definition of Legitimizing
1. legitimize [v] - See also: legitimize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimizing
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 ..."