Proponent vs Legitimist - What's the difference?
proponent | legitimist |
One who supports something; an advocate
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
Making proposals; proposing.
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(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
, 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.
As nouns the difference between proponent and legitimist
is that proponent is one who supports something; an advocate while 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.As adjectives the difference between proponent and legitimist
is that proponent is making proposals; proposing while legitimist is related to the principles of legitimism.proponent
English
Noun
(en noun)- Proponents of the race — notably Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mary Wittenberg, director of the marathon — said the event would provide a needed morale boost, as well as an economic one.
Synonyms
* exponentAntonyms
* detractor * opponentAdjective
(-)legitimist
English
(wikipedia legitimist)Noun
(en noun)citation
