Definition of Legitimising

1. Verb. (present participle of legitimise) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Legitimising

1. legitimise [v] - See also: legitimise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimising

legitimatist
legitimatists
legitimatization
legitimatize
legitimatized
legitimatizes
legitimatizing
legitimator
legitimators
legitimisation
legitimise
legitimised
legitimiser
legitimisers
legitimises
legitimising (current term)
legitimism
legitimisms
legitimist
legitimists
legitimity
legitimization
legitimizations
legitimize
legitimized
legitimizer
legitimizers
legitimizes
legitimizing
legitims

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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