| 词组 | legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize |
| 释义 | legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize Fowler noted in 1926 with some asperity that legitimatize and legitimize were edging out the usage of the older verb legitimate. Legitimate dates from 1586, legitimatize from 1791, and legitimize from 1848. Phythian in 1979 echoed Fowler's complaint but had perhaps neglected to check current usage. While growth in the usage of legitimatize and especially of legitimize did occur in the first half of the 20th century, that growth has not had the effect of producing "the virtual exclusion of legitimate" that Phythian claims. In fact, according to our evidence, while legitimize was used more often than legitimate for a while, since the late 1960s and the early 1970s the two words have been occurring with about the same frequency: • The "objectivity" which earlier scientists sought at their own life peril to legitimate in the era of church dogmatism —Carl Oglesby, Center Mag., March/ April 1971 • But what of their criminality? What role does it play for us? Paradoxically it serves, I believe, to legitimate them in our eyes as objects of interest —Norman Podhoretz, Commentary, January 1972 • ... the ways in which schools and colleges legitimate and maintain inequality —Christopher Jencks, TV. Y. Times Book Rev., 15 Feb. 1976 • Poland has ceased being a nation with even a pretense of Communist rule, a rule that is legitimated by Marxist ideology —Irving Kristol, Wall Street Jour., 11 Jan. 1982 • ... they battle for their political positions, for educational reforms and for a goal of legitimizing their life-styles —Thomas J. Cottle, Change, January-February 1971 • ... José Marti, who legitimized poetry as a revolutionary vocation —Peter Winn, TV.y. Times Book Rev., 10 June 1979 • Ethnicity began to be legitimized as part of the fabric of American life —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Sat-urdayRev., 12 Nov. 1977 • ... that format went from English first into Fortran ... and then back into English, which sort of legitimizes its descent —Howard 1983 Legitimatize, while found with regularity, is used less often than are the other two words: • The only reasons for placing this story in 1916 were to legitimatize the fact that every idea in it is shopworn, and to build sets —Pauline Kael, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 1970 • ... a series of controversial court decisions in several states has already had the effect of legitimatizing trespass on beaches in certain common situations — Anthony Wolff, Saturday Rev., 22 July 1978 • ... perception and more broadly subjective experience had become legitimatized in mainstream American psychology —Howard E. Gruber, TV. Y. Times Book Rev., 8 Jan. 1984 |
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