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le·git·i·mist

(lə-jĭt′ə-mĭst)
n.
One that believes in or advocates rule by hereditary right.

le·git′i·mism n.
le·git′i·mist adj.
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It naturally seemed to members of the English Parliament that the cause of the war was Napoleon's ambition; to the Duke of Oldenburg, that the cause of the war was the violence done to him; to businessmen that the cause of the way was the Continental System which was ruining Europe; to the generals and old soldiers that the chief reason for the war was the necessity of giving them employment; to the legitimists of that day that it was the need of re-establishing les bons principes, and to the diplomatists of that time that it all resulted from the fact that the alliance between Russia and Austria in 1809 had not been sufficiently well concealed from Napoleon, and from the awkward wording of Memorandum No.
One section of the French Legitimists and "Young England" exhibited this spectacle.
It happened, while we lay in the bleaching grounds, that one half of the piece extended into a part of the field that came under the management of a legitimist, while the other invaded the dominions of a liberal.
{bleaching grounds = open spaces where newly woven linen is spread to whiten in the sun; legitimist....
At once it occurred to Mills that this eccentric youngster was the very person for what the legitimist sympathizers had very much at heart just then: to organize a supply by sea of arms and ammunition to the Carlist detachments in the South.
And we were all ardent Royalists of the snow-white Legitimist complexion - Heaven only knows why!
Do you know what a Legitimist is, or an Ultramontane?
The cigarette consumption which had shifted during the previous years into the local illicit market and which caused Rs 37 billion revenue shortfall in 2016-17 started to come back to the legitimists tax paying market.
(138) For moral legitimists, these limitations arise from the law's own inability to shift community norms.
She also believed, despite the opposition of "Legitimists, Orleanists, & English" (p.
While clericalists and monarchists were ascendant in the early days of the Third Republic--hence the building of Sacre Coeur--the rival claims of the Bonapartists, Orleanists, and Legitimists ensured that the republic survived.
The Greeks were the strongest legitimists (in other words, having the strongest legitimate claims) upon the territory and peoples of Macedonia.

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