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What does legitimize mean?

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  1. (transitive) To make legitimate.
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Additionally, the government does not recognize forced marriage or dowries paid to the mother's family to legitimize the marriage.
These could now elucubrate an ideology to sanctify and legitimize the authority of the new kings.
The program has the expectation that young dads will legitimize their children by acknowledging paternity.
The product offered is merely the excuse to legitimize the real and probably illegal moneymaking scam.
Material geographies facilitate the construction and mobilization of spatial metaphors that, in turn, legitimize globalization tendencies.
They are processes that legitimize political activity by international secretariats on behalf of their organizations.

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