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Examples of legitimized

legitimized

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

His evaluation of the pervasive cultural resonance of his subjects is legitimized by histories of contemporaneous cultural institutions and comparable popular entertainers.
Both a king's self and his person had to be legitimized in ancient civilizations.
The parameters of any partnership were clearly established by the discourses emanating from, and legitimized by, the knowledge of the health professional.
Elections are not democracy, of course, but without free and fair elections you cannot have a democratically legitimized government and, hence, representative democracy.
Rather, the concern has been to show how a monarchical and autocratic regime manifested and legitimized itself in the public sphere.
Evidence suggests people contribute more to goods that are legitimized through the social contract created by majoritypeer-support voting outcomes.
Their actions legitimized the new farms but did not enhance the elders' entitlements to the remaining forest.
On the other hand, what is discursively cast as modern has often reproduced, rearticulated, and legitimized gender inequality.
It is also a principled move, which recognizes that democratic politics can also be 'civilized' and legitimized by feelings of cultural identification.
Political innovation that is not legitimized through a change of public sentiment is, on the other hand, likely to be forestalled.
They also intervene once a policy is legitimized politically, for they are experts in setting up implementation schemes and procedures.
By using religious motifs, they legitimized the opposition.
According to institutional theorists, organizations are likely to adopt an innovation if their environment legitimized it.
The theory, in any case, proved singularly appropriate for a government that combined authoritarianism and co-optive oligarchy, legitimized by symbolic plebiscites.
Since coercion should not be used arbitrarily, coordination by the state needs to be legitimized by the consent of its citizens.
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