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
- c. 1733, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, A Dissertation on Parties
References
- constitutionist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913