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The regime was not legitimated by popular support.

I have two understandings of this sentence:

  1. Many people did not accept the regime (=authoritarian government) to be their government.
  2. The regime (=a system or policy) was not legally accepted by many people.

Which one is the correct interpretation? If both are wrong, please give me a correct meaning of the sentence.

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  • Please be sure to give a source for your quotes. I'm not really sure this is a great example... It'd be significantly more common to see "made legitimate". I don't know that I've seen "legitimated" ever.
    – Catija
    Commented Feb 23, 2017 at 0:26
  • What do you think is the difference between those two sentences? They look like they mean almost exactly the same thing to me, unless you're asking whether regime means "the government" or "the system or policy".
    – stangdon
    Commented Feb 23, 2017 at 1:17

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Your example does not sound correct and melba should either be

The regime was made legitimate by popular support.
The regime was not legitimized by popular support.

both mean the regime lacked popular support.

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