Meanings of legitimatize in inglês

The king had made the Parliament legitimatize the Duke of Maine, Mdlle.

She persuaded the king to legitimatize their children, who were confided to Mme.

Our marriage would legitimatize this poor boy, who as yet knows nothing of his position.

He proposed that I should marry him to take care of him and legitimatize our child.

For that you must legitimatize her birth; for that, your highness, you must espouse the Countess M'Gregor.

Do you wish to legitimatize your-thechild?

In order to legitimatize his claim to teach the latter, he now wrote a theological treatise, regarding which he says:-

At least, sir, I hope that you will not be ashamed of me when you formally legitimatize me as your son.

Between his conscience and the facts there is a whole gulf of determining reasons unknown to the judge, but which condemn or legitimatize the act.

He would not have dared to legitimatize his bastard children, had he not been so thoroughly idolized by his greatest heroes and most powerful ministers.

Have you gone to the trouble of having me legitimatized?

Has it not legitimatized murder; given a system to perfidy; organized rebellion; made a virtue of regicide?

Energy, if not excess, seemed legitimatized.

Some of these, with perhaps slight changes, have become legitimatized, and their origin has been nearly, or quite, forgotten.

By what legitimatizing process the bend sinister was erased, and the marquisate preserved, we have hitherto been unable to ascertain.

Upon Archibald's death the old Earl publicly acknowledged Reginald Maltravers, his natural son, and took steps to have him legitimatized.