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Legitimate vs Legitimist - What's the difference?

legitimate | legitimist |

As adjectives the difference between legitimate and legitimist

is that legitimate is in accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful while legitimist is related to the principles of legitimism.

As a verb legitimate

is to make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.

As a noun legitimist is

(historical) a french royalist who believes that the king of france and navarre must be chosen according to the simple application of the salic law.

legitimate

English

Etymology 1

From . Originally "lawfully begotten," from (etyl) legitimer and directly from

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful.
  • *
  • Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
    • legitimate''' reasoning; a '''legitimate standard or method
  • * (rfdate) Macaulay
    • Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic.
  • Authentic, real, genuine.
    • legitimate''' poems of Chaucer; '''legitimate inscriptions
  • (senseid)Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
  • Relating to hereditary rights.
    • Synonyms
    (checksyns) * lawful, legal, rightful
    Antonyms
    * illegitimate, false

    Etymology 2

    Legal Latin, from legitimatus, past participle of (legitimo). See above for antecedents

    Verb

    (legitimat)
  • To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
    • Usage notes
    * Forms of (legitimize) are about twice as common as forms of the verb legitimate in the US. * Forms of legitimate are somewhat more common than the forms of the verbs (legitimize) and (legitimise) in the UK combined.
    Synonyms
    * legitimize
    Derived terms
    * delegitimate

    External links

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    legitimist

    English

    (wikipedia legitimist)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A French royalist who believes that the King of France and Navarre must be chosen according to the simple application of the Salic law.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 8, author=Christopher Caldwell, title=Even God Quotes Tocqueville, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=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.” }}
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  • (by extension) Any proponent for the rule of a legitimate sovereign.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • related to the principles of legitimism