Legitimize: alternatives and connections

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.

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To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

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To convert into money; to adopt as current money; as, to monetize silver.

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The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.

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The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.

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The act of making legitimate.

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The act of making legitimate.

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To make legal.

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Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession…

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To legitimate.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.