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Definition of Legitimists
1. legitimist [n] - See also: legitimist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legitimists
Literary usage of Legitimists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William by Alexis de Tocqueville, Nassau William Senior (1872)
"'The Royalists maybe again subdivided into Orleanists, legitimists, and Fusionists
... There are a very few legitimists who pay to the elder branch the ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... according to the " legitimists," was the rightful king of France, and the
extinction with him of the direct line, the former represents in his person ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"In violating the tomb of the man who had usurped the throne of Egypt, Cambyses
perhaps counted on rallying the legitimists, for he thus presented himself as ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1854)
"... Emperor —Fete in honour of Napoleon I.— Question of fusion between the
legitimists and Orleanists—Visit of the Due de Nemours to the Due de Bordeaux, ..."
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