Another word for legitimize

Each of these changes has tended to improve the existing status, to legitimize railway enterprise, and to safeguard capital or investment.

First, visitors need to believe that you are a legitimize business.

and other Assyrian kings so anxious to possess themselves of Babylon and so to legitimize their power.

In the 12th century the Church's rule, that subsequent marriage did legitimize previous issue, was settled (c. 6, x.

In 1679 Charles denied, in council, his supposed marriage with Lucy Walter, Monmouth's mother, his declarations being published in 1680 to refute the legend of the black box which was supposed to contain the contract of marriage, and told Burnet he would rather see him hanged than legitimize him.