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legitimatizing

legitimatizing is the present participle and gerund of legitimatize.

Meaning of legitimatize

Verb

legitimatize (third-person singular simple present legitimatizes, present participle legitimatizing, simple past and past participle legitimatized)

  1. (transitive) To make legitimate.
  2. (transitive) To legalize.

Questions about legitimatizing

What is legitimatizing the present participle and gerund of?
Legitimatizing is the present participle and gerund of legitimatize.

Words near legitimatizing in the dictionary

  1. legitimatization
  2. legitimatizations
  3. legitimatize
  4. legitimatized
  5. legitimatizes
  6. legitimatizing
  7. legitimator
  8. legitimators
  9. legitime
  10. legitimes
  11. legitimisation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: legitimatizing (page history and authors); legitimatize (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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