principalist
English
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editprincipalist (plural principalists)
- (politics) A radical conservative.
- 2009 June 8, Robert F. Worth, “In Iran, Harsh Talk as Election Nears”, in New York Times[1]:
- “The principalists have shown to the people what serving the people really means,” he said, using a word he prefers to “fundamentalists.”