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Example sentences for "legitimise"

Lexicographically close words:
legitimately; legitimates; legitimation; legitimatized; legitime; legitimised; legitimist; legitimize; legitimized; legitimo
  1. In this work the Hegelian view of history, not without being influenced by Schleiermacher, is so represented as to legitimise a return to the theology of the Fathers.

  2. The regula of course does not legitimise those writings, but only proves that they are authentic and do not belong to the heretics.

  3. Alongside of a code of morals, to which any one in case of need could adapt himself, the Church began to legitimise a morality of self-chosen, refined sanctity, which really required no Redeemer.

  4. However brilliant the destiny he may assure to your daughter, there is, between the reparation to her and the resolution to marry you in order to legitimise the birth of this child, a very wide abyss.

  5. To do this you must legitimise her birth, and the only means by which that can be achieved is by espousing the Countess Macgregor.

  6. To-day or never he will say to me, 'A marriage must legitimise the birth of our child!

  7. He is bound, in order to legitimise his own position, to prove that "the natives" are savages, living in a morass of nastiness and ignorance.

  8. The Ne Temere decree will de-legitimise every Protestant in the country.

  9. This is the sanction invoked to legitimise every adventure in invasion and colonisation.

  10. The Babylonian chronicler tells us that for eight years there were "no kings;" the image of Bel-Merodach had been cast to the ground by the sacrilegious conqueror, and there was none who could legitimise his right to rule.

  11. All that remained was for the Assyrian usurper to legitimise his title by occupying Babylon itself, and there receiving the crown of Asia.

  12. If so, Mary might go; although he still refused to legitimise her; but if no more issue was to be born to him, he could hardly allow his elder daughter to leave England and fall into the hands of the Emperor.

  13. Defeats Uah-ab-Ra and strangles him; marries the daughter of Psamthek II, to legitimise his pretensions.


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