What's the difference between legitimism and legitimist?
Legitimism
Definition:
(n.) The principles or plans of legitimists.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cameron had a legitimate argument, but the marines didn't want to hear it.
(2) He regarded civilians who "harboured terrorists" as legitimate targets.
(3) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
(4) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(5) Photograph: Rex Features If Brookstein had confined his anger to legitimate provocations, it would be easier to sympathise, for he seems to have suffered more than enough of them on The X Factor.
(6) Not exactly – rather, it had become impossible to distinguish between people who were legitimately Googling for information, and people who were trying to take a photo.
(7) The author argues that the expertise available from the specialty is of increasing importance to psychiatry as a whole, as more and more legal issues become relevant to the practice of general psychiatry, and should be actively encouraged and legitimized rather than ostracized.
(8) The purpose of this investigation was to calculate the paternity probabilities for a sample of legitimate families with a true father compared with those obtained in some cases of non-excluded men chosen randomly from the population as the accused fathers for the same mother-child pairs.
(9) Statutes in all countries in the region provide that a man must support his legitimate and illegitimate children; there are, however, weaknesses in the laws on the books.
(10) At the same time, sexuality has become a legitimate concern for health professionals.
(11) Few Malians take Campaoré as a legitimate interlocutor, and no one believes that he has the country's interests at heart.
(12) The probability that the initial situation is correct--the proband and the cohabitant's six children are all legitimate-is "practically refuted": W = 0.03%.
(13) But Zhang described $9m of that as legitimate profit from an iron-ore deal, adding: "There are plenty of reasons to argue against the rest of the amount."
(14) However according to the authors' experience physical tiredness can legitimately be suspected to have produced this aggravation in 47.06 % of cases of a secondarily aggravated hepatitis.
(15) I think rightly, people have been concerned about whether Syria will follow through on the commitments that have been laid forth, and I think there are legitimate concerns as to how technically we are going to be getting those chemical weapons out while there is still fighting going on.
(16) The only question I can legitimately ask is: why is this happening?
(17) Scott Walker says building Canada border wall is a 'legitimate issue' Read more The governor, who is running well behind among the 17 contenders in the Republican White House race, sought to draw a distinction between his proposal and what he called Donald Trump’s “simplistic” idea on how to deal with an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US.
(18) But I want to be very clear that our goal is to construct a legitimate legal framework for Guantánamo detainees – not to avoid one.
(19) Similarly at world level, it considers the struggles and efforts by the miserable and oppressed nations for achievement of their legitimate rights and independence as their due rights, because people have the right to liberate their countries from colonialism and obtain their rights.
(20) Your writers have defended the extraordinary introduction of an export block to halt their legitimate purchase on the basis of their artistic value, yet you will be storing them in a maritime museum.
Legitimist
Definition:
(n.) One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.
(n.) Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Front National is a family party, and very legitimist.