Meanings of legitimized by in English

You are legitimized by love, your sister is legitimate by law.

We feel legitimized by our proximity to it.

A new beginning, legitimized by the state.

This speculation is somewhat legitimized by a statement Steve Jobs shared with his official biographer, Walter Isaacson.

Like alcohol, gambling (especially lotteries, off-track betting, and slots) would eventually be legitimized by the upper-world.

Logic as we know it, i.e., a discipline legitimized by literate use of language, is concerned with structural aspects of various languages.

These other hatreds have themselves legitimized by the crudest analogy, and by what, once having cooled off, we recognize as the most far-fetched analogy.

After being refused recognition by the American masons, his lodge was legitimized by a branch of the British Masons connected with army stationed in Boston.

Her two children by Philip II., Philip, count of Clermont (d. 1234), and Mary, who married Philip, count of Namur, were legitimized by Innocent III.