Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Maintenance of or insistence upon legitimacy in any relation; specifically, the principles of the Legitimists.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The principles or plans of legitimists.

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  • noun The principles or plans of legitimists.

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Examples

  • These are old-fashioned Tories with the conservatism of the great Salisbury, the radicalism of Thatcher and the monarchical legitimism and sexual athleticism of Viscount Bolingbroke.

    Spice Girls back sceptics on Europe 2007

  • And then he became the personal secretary for the Count of B … who had a champion of legitimism. 2 Fired for unknown reasons.

    The 13 Culprits Simenon, Georges, 1903- 2002

  • If in her husband's room at the bank legitimism was a mere unpopulated principle, in her salon Legitimacy was nothing but persons.

    The Arrow of Gold 1919

  • If in her husband's room at the bank legitimism was a mere unpopulated principle, in her salon Legitimacy was nothing but persons.

    The Arrow of Gold : A Story Between Two Notes 1919

  • We have seen that the replacement of the traditional legitimism of the powers-that-be by the brutal plebiscitary rule of Bonapartist parvenus does not furnish these tendencies with any moral or aesthetic superiority.

    Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

  • In spite of the impersonal character of these narratives, they show traces of true Carlovingian legitimism, as well as the loyalty of their authors to the Austrasian dynasty.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • At her home he met the Duc de Fitz-James and the other leaders of militant legitimism, and little by little he gravitated towards their party.

    Honore de Balzac Albert Keim 1911

  • French legitimism of De Ripert-Monclar to the Republicanism of

    Robert Browning 1905

  • In literature the tendency appears as romanticism, in politics as legitimism, in religion as ultramontanism.

    An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore 1900

  • But the Congress of Vienna acted in harmony with the principle of legitimism which it avowed and professed, whereas the Paris Conference violates without scruple the canons by which it claims to be guided.

    The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894

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