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legitimist

[ li-jit-uh-mist ]

noun

  1. a supporter of legitimate authority, especially of a claim to a throne based on direct descent.


adjective

  1. Also ±ô±ð·²µ¾±³Ù·¾±Â·³¾¾±²õ·³Ù¾±³¦ []. of, relating to, or supporting legitimate authority.

legitimist

/ ±ôɪˈ»åÏôɪ³Ùɪ³¾Éª²õ³Ù /

noun

  1. a monarchist who supports the rule of a legitimate dynasty or of its senior branch
  2. (formerly) a supporter of the elder line of the Bourbon family in France
  3. a supporter of legitimate authority
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of or relating to legitimists
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ±ô±ðˈ²µ¾±³Ù¾±³¾¾±²õ³¾, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±ô±ð·²µ¾±³Ù·¾±Â·³¾¾±²õ³¾ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of legitimist1

1835–45; < Latin ±ôŧ²µ¾±³Ù¾±³¾ ( us ) lawful ( legitim ) + -ist, modeled on French ±ôé²µ¾±³Ù¾±³¾¾±²õ³Ù±ð
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Joseph de Maistre was "a fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat, an intransigent legitimist ... always and everywhere the champion of the hardest, narrowest and most inflexible dogmatism."

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“When there’s a war, there’s a reflex to be legitimist,†Pécresse said.

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"Our principles are not yours," scornfully exclaims a Legitimist nobleman—the late Marquis de la Rochejaquelein, if I remember rightly.

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One who adheres to the house of Bourbon; a legitimist.

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I have not met a Frenchman of any position, or any political views, Republican or Monarchical, Bonapartist or Legitimist, Catholic or Protestant, whose blood did not boil at the mention of Alsace and Lorraine, and who did not look forward to a fresh conflict with Germany as inevitable.

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