legitimist
noun
a supporter of legitimate authority, especially of a claim to a throne based on direct descent.
legitimism
-
a word derived from
legitimist.
Example Sentences
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At her home he met the Duc de Fitz-James and the other leaders of militant legitimism, and little by little he gravitated towards their party.
From Honore de Balzac by Frederic Taber Cooper
The most conspicuous among them was Comte Albert de Mun, an eloquent exponent in the Chamber of legitimism and Christian socialism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
Rightly envisaged, the Crimean war was the end of what remained of absolutism and legitimism in Europe.
From Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad
In literature the tendency appears as romanticism, in politics as legitimism, in religion as ultramontanism.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
If in her husband’s room at the bank legitimism was a mere unpopulated principle, in her salon Legitimacy was nothing but persons.
From The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad
