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legitimating

legitimating is the present participle and gerund of legitimate.

Meaning of legitimate

Verb

legitimate (third-person singular simple present legitimates, present participle legitimating, simple past and past participle legitimated)

  1. (transitive) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
    Synonyms:
    legitimize

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Questions about legitimating

What is legitimating the present participle and gerund of?
Legitimating is the present participle and gerund of legitimate.

Words near legitimating in the dictionary

  1. legitimate theatre
  2. legitimated
  3. legitimately
  4. legitimateness
  5. legitimates
  6. legitimating
  7. legitimation
  8. legitimations
  9. legitimatised
  10. legitimatises
  11. legitimatising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: legitimating (page history and authors); legitimate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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