legitimist
Americannoun
adjective
noun
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a monarchist who supports the rule of a legitimate dynasty or of its senior branch
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(formerly) a supporter of the elder line of the Bourbon family in France
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a supporter of legitimate authority
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of legitimist
1835–45; < Latin lēgitim ( us ) lawful ( see legitim) + -ist, modeled on French légitimiste
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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."
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2023
The propositions seemed safe and indisputable, but the deductions evolved from those propositions were as frightful to the legitimist as they were delightful to the liberal.
From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg
They adopted a strict legitimist theory of the descent of the crown, and denied the right of parliament to deal with the succession.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
The chairman of the constitutional committee was a legitimist, and he, inspired by the abbé de Genoude, of the Gazette de France, and opposed by Odilon Barrot, insisted on the pure logic of absolute democracy.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
In 1869 information which he supplied to a legitimist newspaper at Marseilles with regard to the candidature of M. de Lesseps as deputy for that city led to a demand for his expulsion from France.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
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