legitimist
noun
a supporter of legitimate authority, especially of a claim to a throne based on direct descent.
legitimism
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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
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
But Chateaubriand had never given up his legitimism, and the murder of the Duke d'Enghien shocked him irresistibly.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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
