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LEGITIMIST

Definitions: LEGITIMIST

LEGITIMIST

Noun

1. Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.

2. One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LEGITIMIST" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

 

Crosswords: LEGITIMIST

English words defined with "LEGITIMIST": BourbonistLegitimatist. (references)
Non-English Usage: "LEGITIMIST" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Serbo-Croatian (legitimist), Swedish (legitimist).

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Use in Literature: LEGITIMIST

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The old legitimist parties none the less assailed the Revolution of 1830 with all the violence which springs from false reasoning.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: LEGITIMIST

"LEGITIMIST" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LEGITIMIST" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: LEGITIMIST

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "LEGITIMIST": legitimist-dynastic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LEGITIMIST

Language Translations for "LEGITIMIST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏المناصر للسلطة التشريعية. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

легитимист. (various references)

   

French

  

légitimiste. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

legitimista. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

egitimistlay

   

Portuguese

  

justificação (clearing, digital stuffing, exculpatory, justification, justifying, pulse stuffing, reason, substantiation, vindication, warrant, warranty, wherefore). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

легитимист. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

legitimist. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

legitimista (royalist). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

legitimist. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

легітиміст (legitimatist). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người theo chủ nghĩa chính thống. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: LEGITIMIST

Derivations

Words beginning with "LEGITIMIST": legitimists. (additional references)


Misspellings

"LEGITIMIST" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: legitime, legitimiti. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LEGITIMIST"

Words rhyming with "LEGITIMIST" (pronounced 'Le*git"i*mist'): Academist, Acosmist, Agamist, Agronomist, Alchemist, Anatomist, Animist, Anthropotomist, Antinomist, Autoomist, Bemist, Bigamist, Calamist, Cataclysmist, Cryptogamist, Demonomist, Deuterogamist, Deuteronomist, Dichotomist, Digamist, Dynamist, Economist, Enmist, Entomotomist, Epigrammist, Epitomist, Eponymist, Gastronomist, Herpetotomist, Heterophemist, Ichthyotomist, Lithotomist, Microtomist, misogamist, monogamist, Neogamist, Neurotomist, Optimist, Ornithotomist, Osteotomist, Ovariotomist, Palindromist, Pantomimist, Phlebotomist, Phytotomist, Polemist, Polygamist, Ramist, Summist, synonymist. (additional references)

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Anagrams: LEGITIMIST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-i-l-m-s-t-t"

-2 letters: miltiest, mistitle.

-3 letters: elitism, elitist, gimlets, ileitis, limiest, limites, mitiest.

-4 letters: gimels, gimlet, glimes, legist, legits, limits, mislie, mislit, simile, titles.

-5 letters: emits, gelts, gilts, gimel, glime, glims, islet, istle, items, legit, limes, limit, melts, metis, miles, milts, mites, mitis, mitts, sigil, slime, smelt, smile, smite, stile, stilt, stime, tiles, tilts, times, titis, title.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-i-l-m-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: legitimists.

 

+3 letters: legitimations, legitimatizes.

 

+4 letters: metalinguistic.

 

+5 letters: delegitimations, legitimizations, metalinguistics.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LEGITIMIST


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 45 47 49 54 49 4D 49 53 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .    --.    ..    -    ..    --    ..    ...    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000101 01000111 01001001 01010100 01001001 01001101 01001001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#71 &#73 &#84 &#73 &#77 &#73 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0047 0049 0054 0049 004D 0049 0053 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46394143544347435354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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