legitimizes in English

verb

1

make legitimate.

voters legitimize the government through the election of public officials

synonyms: validate, legitimate, permit, authorize, sanction, license, condone, justify, endorse, support, legalize

verb

• validate, legitimate, permit, authorize, sanction, license, condone, justify, endorse, support, legalize
• legitimate, legalize, decriminalize, legitimatise, legitimatize

Use "legitimizes" in a sentence

1. At the same time, the process as a whole further legitimizes elections in the eyes of people accustomed by Soviet rule to dismissing all votes as charades.

2. The Brutalization hypothesis states that the death penalty lessens people’s respect for life, and as a result actually lowers their inhibitions to kill. It in effect legitimizes murder, which inadvertently leads to an increase in homicides