The word "legitimated" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used as an adjective meaning "given legal validity or authority". For example, "The government passed a law that legitimated the rights of immigrant workers."
Pandering never works in the long run: Sarkozy took votes from the Front National in 2007, but also legitimated the LePeniste perspective.
Eurobonds issued by a newly created European treasury and legitimated by a properly elected European Parliament similar to US government bonds issued by the US treasury and legitimated by Congress are another matter.
"Kirchner hasn't killed the Duhaldes yet, but now it's a question of when, not if," says Nicolás Ducoté of CIPPEC, a Buenos Aires think-tank.In this section After Kirchner's victory Battered by the storm Out in the cold Democracy's ten-year rut ReprintsBut the election also legitimated new opponents.
The threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union legitimated an extensive American espionage apparatus.
In the late 1960s and 1970s, it was extreme leftist groups such as the Black Panthers and the Weathermen whose rhetoric legitimated armed violence as a defence of "the people".
By 2004 a first-ever free election had legitimated the presidency of Hamid Karzai.
He was supported by an influential faction of monastic churchmen, who condoned his regicide of Emperor Yitbarek and legitimated his descent from Solomon.
Iltutmish legitimated his ambition by obtaining a letter of investiture from the ʿAbbāsid caliph in Baghdad, whose name appeared in Hindi on the bullion currency so that the people on the streets might perceive the nature of the new regime.
The Donation thereby explained and legitimated a number of important political developments and papal claims, including the transfer of the capital to Byzantium, the displacement of old Rome by the new Rome of the church, papal secular authority, and the papacy's separation from allegiance to the Byzantine empire and association with the rising power of the Latin West.
The caste system, which has organized Indian society for millennia, is thoroughly legitimated by and intertwined with Hindu religious doctrine and practice.
He viewed history as a way to infuse educators with a sense of mission and wrote historical accounts that celebrated and legitimated the education-reform movements of his day by linking them to a story of unfolding progress and democracy.
