delegalize

[ dee-lee-guh-lahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, de·le·gal·ized, de·le·gal·iz·ing.

1. to revoke the statutory authorization of.

Word History and Origins

Origin of delegalize¹

de- + legalize

Example Sentences

The Warsaw city hall has made numerous attempts in the past to delegalize the event, but the Independence March association, the organizer, has successfully challenged court decisions.

From Reuters

However, his suggestion to delegalize the centuries-old verbal divorce widely seen in conservative and patriarchal Egypt as a male prerogative is a bold reformist move, but also one likely to spark a backlash from conservative clerics and harsh condemnation by militants.

From Seattle Times

It was an infamous, a fraudulent subterfuge to divorce my poor mother, and so delegalize me a few months before my birth.

From Project Gutenberg

"Only two considerations could hold back a man like you from urging a claim he regarded as a sacred right; the fact of a former marriage or the remembrance of a forfeited citizenship—pardon me, we can not mince matters in a strait like this—which would delegalize whatever contract you may have entered into."

From Project Gutenberg