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legitimatist

legitimatist is the archaic form of legitimist.

Meaning of legitimist

Noun

legitimist (plural legitimists)

  1. (historical) A French royalist who believes that the King of France and Navarre must be chosen according to the simple application of the Salic law.
    • Nor does he beat around the bush: Tocqueville’s cousin and confidant Louis de Kergorlay is “a young idiot” and the legitimist insurrectionist the Duchesse de Berry “one of the silliest princesses in all European history.”2007 July 8, Christopher Caldwell, “Even God Quotes Tocqueville”, in New York Times
  2. A Carlist
  3. (broadly) Any proponent for the rule of a legitimate sovereign.

See all 4 meanings of legitimist

Forms of legitimatist

plurallegitimatists

Questions about legitimatist

What is legitimatist the archaic form of?
Legitimatist is the archaic form of legitimist.

Words near legitimatist in the dictionary

  1. legitimation
  2. legitimations
  3. legitimatised
  4. legitimatises
  5. legitimatising
  6. legitimatist
  7. legitimatists
  8. legitimatization
  9. legitimatizations
  10. legitimatize
  11. legitimatized

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