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单词 delegitimize
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Definition of delegitimize in English:

delegitimize

(British delegitimise)
verbdiːlɪˈdʒɪtɪmʌɪzˌdēləˈjidəˌmīz
[with object]
  • Withdraw legitimate status or authority from.

    the country has been delegitimized by the world community
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is a blatant effort to delegitimize the country as such.
    • Good substantive arguments, which are only delegitimized by the overheated and irrational introduction.
    • By proclaiming all education in other contexts as ‘unrecognised’, the old order was delegitimised.
    • If she levels a levelheaded, legitimate accusation, delegitimize it by feigning astonishment and outrage.
    • Similarly, terrorists lose when their outrages delegitimize their political cause.
    • The Board of Education and its companion cases contributed in a major way to bettering America by delegitimizing racial segregation in public schooling.
    • Extremism can be best delegitimized by elections, and the religious parties' vote in the country has historically fallen short of 5 percent.
    • Several attempts were made to delegitimise the electoral process, even before voting started.
    • However, in choosing methods that are both unlawful and ineffective, we have delegitimized our pursuit of this intelligence.
    • Let me illustrate here with an example about music, which may simply serve to marginalize and delegitimize the issue I'm discussing, but hey, that's why we're here.
    • It deliberately sets out to demonize and delegitimize the the State and, by extension, its people.
    • In the end, it wasn't the musical subcultures that were delegitimized but Soviet authority.
    • In other parts of the western world, the use of force and crude political arm-twisting is delegitimized and no longer comme il faut.
    • Prosecutors delegitimize this status by using it to extract plea bargains
    • First, there is the wonderfully apt analogy that a small turnout of whites in the first election after the end of apartheid in South Africa would not have delegitimized any election there.
    • ‘We're moving away from more than five decades of efforts to delegitimize the use of nuclear weapons,’ he warned.
    • The claim to know how the world really is expresses a hegemonic ambition; it asserts authority in a way that delegitimizes others’ perspectives on human experience and the world in general.
    • If anything, I thought it would delegitimize those who were questioning him because this was such a stunning, staggering development that put the nation into a state of shock.
    • Only their own religious communities and societies can really restrain and delegitimise them.
    • From the start their interests were in destabilizing and delegitimizing the occupation.

Derivatives

  • delegitimization

  • noun
    • In societies, such as the African ones where religion is woven into virtually every aspect of life, its delegitimization can easily lead to the collapse of social norms and cultural identities.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But it's also another small step in the delegitimization of the very idea that the out-of-power party has the right to oppose the party in power.
      • This sort of delegitimization of terrorism, I think, is courageous.
      • The end of the Cold War, therefore, was less a ‘victory’ of one side over the other than a joint process of delegitimization, the dissolution of two separate political imaginaries.
      • By far the most influential cause of the possible trend toward the delegitimization of warfare is the global media.
 
 

Definition of delegitimize in US English:

delegitimize

(British delegitimise)
verbˌdēləˈjidəˌmīz
[with object]
  • Withdraw legitimate status or authority from (someone or something)

    political efforts to delegitimize nuclear weapons
    Example sentencesExamples
    • By proclaiming all education in other contexts as ‘unrecognised’, the old order was delegitimised.
    • It deliberately sets out to demonize and delegitimize the the State and, by extension, its people.
    • If anything, I thought it would delegitimize those who were questioning him because this was such a stunning, staggering development that put the nation into a state of shock.
    • Prosecutors delegitimize this status by using it to extract plea bargains
    • From the start their interests were in destabilizing and delegitimizing the occupation.
    • Several attempts were made to delegitimise the electoral process, even before voting started.
    • The Board of Education and its companion cases contributed in a major way to bettering America by delegitimizing racial segregation in public schooling.
    • Let me illustrate here with an example about music, which may simply serve to marginalize and delegitimize the issue I'm discussing, but hey, that's why we're here.
    • In the end, it wasn't the musical subcultures that were delegitimized but Soviet authority.
    • Extremism can be best delegitimized by elections, and the religious parties' vote in the country has historically fallen short of 5 percent.
    • Similarly, terrorists lose when their outrages delegitimize their political cause.
    • ‘We're moving away from more than five decades of efforts to delegitimize the use of nuclear weapons,’ he warned.
    • The claim to know how the world really is expresses a hegemonic ambition; it asserts authority in a way that delegitimizes others’ perspectives on human experience and the world in general.
    • Good substantive arguments, which are only delegitimized by the overheated and irrational introduction.
    • However, in choosing methods that are both unlawful and ineffective, we have delegitimized our pursuit of this intelligence.
    • In other parts of the western world, the use of force and crude political arm-twisting is delegitimized and no longer comme il faut.
    • If she levels a levelheaded, legitimate accusation, delegitimize it by feigning astonishment and outrage.
    • It is a blatant effort to delegitimize the country as such.
    • Only their own religious communities and societies can really restrain and delegitimise them.
    • First, there is the wonderfully apt analogy that a small turnout of whites in the first election after the end of apartheid in South Africa would not have delegitimized any election there.
 
 
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