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Webster 1913 Edition

(-mĭst)

Noun.

[Cf. F.

légitimiste

One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.

Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.

legitimist ‎(plural legitimists)

(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.
- 2007 July 8, Christopher Caldwell, “Even God Quotes Tocqueville”, in New York Times:
  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.”
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(by extension) Any proponent for the rule of a legitimate sovereign.

legitimist ‎(comparative more legitimist, superlative most legitimist)