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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
legitimatize .
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Examples
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Business is no longer "to be looked upon" as the exploitation of society, private profits are to be "legitimatized" and private fortunes
Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling
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However, part of the issue in the released emails was how stacked the process to become 'legitimatized' became.
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For my money, a deterministic theory of television or Hollywood movies threatens to distract us from a much larger problem: the kind of murder legitimatized, sanctioned, and encouraged by our worst political and religious institutions.
Interview: James Morrow on 'Shambling Towards Hiroshima' 2009
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This perception has legitimatized attacks on them.
Global Voices in English » Iraq: Organised ‘crackdown’ on homosexuals 2009
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The myth of genetic inferiority of people of African ancestry not only legitimatized slavery, but also biblically sanctioned it.
Irene Monroe: Theory of Blacks' Intellectual Inferiority Rears Ugly Head at Harvard 2010
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He cautioned against the dangers of power with this corollary: "We ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about particular degrees of interest and passion which corrupt the justice whereby the exercise of power is legitimatized."
Eliot Spitzer: The Need for Both Passion and Humility in Politics 2009
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To pick an example from American history, it was thus that the South was forced, following its unsuccessful attempt at secession, to accept a government which was not legitimatized by Southern morality.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 13~ The Enlargement and Concentration of Political Power 2009
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In most of them, however, there have been periods of stalemate and vacillation followed by periods when the party in power rode roughshod over the protests of many minorities, disregarding the fact that such action was not legitimatized by traditional morality.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 13~ The Enlargement and Concentration of Political Power 2009
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Paul Krugman is a Clinton supporter who seems to hate Obama, and who legitimatized the "cult" smear by putting it in print.
Steve King: Obama Would "Certainly Be Viewed As A Savior" To Al-Qaida 2009
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This was an entirely illegal military coup that was speciously legitimatized at what appears to have been gunpoint.
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