Definition of "legitimatizing" [legitimatizing]

• Present participle of legitimatize. (verb)

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• ""legitimatizing" crimes against humanity committed elsewhere."
• "Opponents of SB 1070 (who condemn it as a bill legitimatizing racial profiling) are possibly disappointed by the absence -- in the arguments of the DOJ, and in turn in the opinion of Judge Bolton - to racial or ethnic discrimination in policing that the law might generate."
• "Influential scholar Shaikh Hamza Yusuf devoted his sermon to passionately denounce domestic violence as having zero rationalization or legitimatizing basis in the Qur'an and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad."