legitimist

L1E1G2I1T1I1M3I1S1T1

noun

A French royalist who believes that the King of France and Navarre must be chosen according to the simple application of the Salic law.

Scrabble 13
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounlegitimist (plural legitimists)

plural legitimists

  1. historicalA French royalist who believes that the King of France and Navarre must be chosen according to the simple application of the Salic law.

    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.”

    2007 July 8, Christopher Caldwell, “Even God Quotes Tocqueville”, in New York Times
  2. A Carlist
  3. broadlyAny proponent for the rule of a legitimate sovereign.
adjectivelegitimist (comparative more legitimist, superlative most legitimist)

comparative more legitimist · superlative most legitimist

  1. related to the principles of legitimism
Cite this entry
APA

legitimist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/legitimist

MLA

“legitimist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/legitimist. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “legitimist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/legitimist.

Source: legitimist on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.