legitimatize's Usage Examples:

In 1448 Pierre de Bauffremont, lord of Charny, married Marie, a legitimatized daughter of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy.

by his mistress, Elizabeth Mure, and was legitimatized when his parents were married about 1 349.

Orlov was never married, but had five natural children, whom Catherine ennobled and legitimatized.

Frederick left several illegitimate children: Enzio has already been referred to; Frederick, who was made the imperial vicar in Tuscany; and Manfred, his son by the beloved Bianca Lancia or Lanzia, who was legitimatized just before his father's death,and was appointed by his will prince of Tarento and regent of Sicily.

He sought to remedy the evil by liaisons with two of the most beautiful of his countrywomen, Barbara Gizanka and Anna Zajanczkowska, the diet undertaking to legitimatize and acknowledge as his successor any heir male who might be born to him; but their complacency was in vain, for the king died childless.

Synonyms:

legitimate, let, decriminalize, monetize, allow, legalise, permit, legitimize, monetise, legitimise, legitimatise, countenance, decriminalise, legalize,

Antonyms:

outlaw, disallow, criminalise, criminalize, forbid,