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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He had friends whose opinions covered every description of madness from the French legitimism of De Ripert-Monclar to the Republicanism of Landor.
From Robert Browning by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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
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
But the Congress of Vienna acted in harmony with the principle of legitimism which it avowed and professed, whereas the Paris Conference violates without scruple the canons by which it claims to be guided.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
