constitutionist
English edit
Etymology edit
constitution + -ist
Noun edit
constitutionist (plural constitutionists)
- One who adheres to the constitution of the country.
- c. 1733, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, A Dissertation on Parties:
- nothing can be more reasonable than to admit the nominal division of constitutionists and anti - constitutionists , or of a court and a countryparty
References edit
- “constitutionist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.