单词 | legitimist |
释义 | legitimistn.adj. A. n. 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. Also with capital initial. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > monarchism > types of > adherent of juredivinist1681 legitimate1817 legitimatist1830 legitimist1831 hereditist1874 1831 Examiner 19 June 391/2 The police was obliged to arrest the imprudent legitimist, and the carriage in which he was placed reached the Conciergerie through a shower of stones. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 66 The papal secretary of state was denounced as a secret adherent of the legitimists. 1870 Sat. Rev. 2 Apr. 430 Isabella II. was, in the eyes of Legitimists and extreme Catholics, a revolutionary usurper. 1900 Harper's Weekly 20 Jan. 50/3 Surely the legitimists are as dead in France as the Bonapartists. 1962 G. Chapman Third Republic of France vii. 163 He was elected by the Senate to the life-seat vacated by the death of the Legitimist, La Rochette. 2001 Guardian 25 June i. 14/2 Legitimists and reactionaries everywhere will surely have been heartened by the Guardian's continuing conversion to the Jacobite cause. B. adj. Of or relating to the legitimists; brought about by legitimists; expressing their sentiments. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [adjective] > supporting monarchy > type of restoringc1715 legitimist1831 legitimistic1860 1831 Examiner 10 Apr. 232/1 The King, Louis-Philippe, always pre-occupied, either by legitimist scruples, or by family interests, had resolved..to get restored to the expelled branch of the Bourbons all the estates which it possessed in France. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xviii. 190 The accession of the house of York was strictly a legitimist restoration. 1905 Amer. Hist. Rev. 10 798 Only a week before Walker had landed in Nicaragua the Legitimist government appointed two agents to proceed to New York. 1952 E. de T. Bechtel Freedom of Press & L'Association Mensuelle iv. iii. 36 All the Republican as well as the Legitimist newspapers had been prosecuted. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Mar. 3/4 After the death of his uncle, the legitimist pretender to the French throne, the Duke inherited the Château of Chambord. Derivatives legitiˈmistic adj. inclined to the opinions of the legitimists. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [adjective] > supporting monarchy > type of restoringc1715 legitimist1831 legitimistic1860 1860 John Bull & Britannia 14 July 442/1 France and the 19th century viewed through highly legitimistic spectacles! 1877 Tinsley's Mag. 20 381 He is too Legitimistic for me. 1921 C. Radziwill in J. H. Floyd Women in Life Balzac Introd. p. xxv Madame de Balzac, thanks to her husband's Catholic and Legitimistic tendencies and sympathies, became less sarcastic. 2001 M. af Malmborg Neutrality & State-building in Sweden ii. 60 As an anti-royalist he did not share the legitimistic feelings of Gustav III and Gustav IV Adolph. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1831 |
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