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legitimist (iou)



legitimist noun & adjective. M19.
[French legitimiste, formed as LEGITIME: see -IST.]
A. noun. A supporter of legitimate authority, esp. of a claim to a throne on the grounds of strict hereditary succession; spec. in France, a supporter of the elder Bourbon line, driven from the throne in 1830. M19.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or pertaining to legitimists or legitimism. M19.
L. Adamic Washington..was legitimist It wanted no revolution in Yugoslavia.