leaguist

English

Etymology

From league +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈliːɡɪst/

Noun

leaguist (plural leaguists)

1. A member or supporter of a league.
   • 1837 Mar, London Quarterly Review:

     In France the Leaguists began to denounce his rapacity and his nepotism; in Spain a Jesuit preached upon the lamentable state of the church.

   • 2004, Lieven De Winter, Huri Tursan, Regionalist Parties in Western Europe:

     Yet the tensions related to the centre-periphery cleavage have always remained the basis of the political action of the leaguists.

Adjective

leaguist (comparative more leaguist, superlative most leaguist)

1. Pertaining to membership of, or advocacy for, a league.
   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 261:

     Sazonov supported Hartwig's pro-Serbian and leaguist policy on the Balkans, as a means both of countering Austrian designs and applying indirect pressure to the Ottomans.

Anagrams

• aigulets