illegitimize
verb (used with object)
to make illegitimate.
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"Attempts have been made to illegitimatize it," answered Gronski, "but licentiousness never can be rhythmical nor harmonical, and for that reason from these attempts there was born an antichrist of music."
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz