delegitimate
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Etymology edit
From de- + legitimate.
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delegitimate (third-person singular simple present delegitimates, present participle delegitimating, simple past and past participle delegitimated)
- (transitive) To cause (something) not to be legitimate; to make illegitimate, to illegitimize.
- 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 7:
- Equally, the arguments delegitimate rival claims both from insiders […] and from outsiders seeking hegemony over the ‘national’ territory.