constitutionist

English

Etymology

constitution +‎ -ist

Noun

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

“constitutionist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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