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Grammar : Verb

Spell : lee-guh-lahyz

Phonetic Transcription : ˈli gəˌlaɪz

Definition of legalize

Origin : 1716, from legal + -ize. Related: Legalized; legalizing.

verb allow, validate

Example sentences :

Suppose, for instance, England should legalize slaving, again.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

A final effort to legalize slavery in Nova Scotia was made in 1808.
Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 » by Various

Suppose we were to legalize these contracts and permit the establishment of monopolies.
Extract from : « Monopolies and the People » by Charles Whiting Baker

If the Legislature had the right to legalize it, they had the right to reject it.
Extract from : « Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. I (of 16) » by Thomas Hart Benton

But by what steps should he proceed, to legalize the course he proposed?
Extract from : « The History of the Post Office in British North America » by William Smith

Of course it did not legalize it in the North American colonies.
Extract from : « The Unconstitutionality of Slavery » by Lysander Spooner

The geographical jurisdiction will, in all cases, legalize the proceedings.
Extract from : « The Principles of Masonic Law » by Albert G. Mackey

A Bill introduced in 1924 into the Senate to legalize sterilization of mental defectives, &c., was rejected.
Extract from : « Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders » by W. H. Triggs, Donald McGavin, Frederick Truby King, J. Sands Elliot, Ada G. Patterson, C.E. Matthews and J. Beck

She only had to refuse to legalize their marriage, to part from him for ever, and all would be well with him thenceforward.
Extract from : « Two on a Tower » by Thomas Hardy

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities.
Extract from : « Amiel's Journal » by Henri-Frdric Amiel

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