legitimierende
legitimierende is a German adjective derived from the verb legitimieren, meaning to legitimize or to confer legitimacy. The word is used to describe actions, measures, arguments or institutions that serve to legitimize something. It is often found in phrases such as legitimierende Maßnahmen (legitimation measures), legitimierende Narrative (legitimation narratives) or legitimierende Institutionen (legitimation institutions). In scholarly discourse the term is used to analyze how certain discourses or practices reinforce authority, order or social norms. For example, a state might employ legitimierende propaganda to justify its policies, or a company might develop a set of legitimierende policies to gain consumer trust.
Etymologically, legitimieren comes from the Latin legitimatus, the past participle of legitīre, which in turn comes