constitutionistn.
rare.
An adherent of the constitution of the country; = constitutionalist n. 2.
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1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 239 Nothing can be more reasonable than to admit the nominal Division of Constitutionists and Anti-constitutionists.
1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 240 To encourage the Constitutionists, or Country Party.
1746 Fool (1748) II. 16 There is in the above Speech a..Turn of Thinking, that denotes the Speaker a thorough Constitutionist.
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