legalist

From legal +‎ -ist.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ɡəl.ɪst/

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• Hyphenation: le‧ga‧list

legalist (comparative more legalist, superlative most legalist)

1. Of or related to legalism, in its various senses.

• (theological doctrine): justiciary, justiciar

legalist (plural legalists)

1. One who adheres to legalism, in its various senses.
   • 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Hammer of God”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:

     “Don’t say anything! Oh, don’t say anything,” cried the atheist cobbler, dancing about in an ecstasy of admiration of the English legal system. For no man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.

• (theological doctrine): justiciary

• antinomian

• stillage, tillages

Borrowed from French légaliste.

legalist m or n (feminine singular legalistă, masculine plural legaliști, feminine and neuter plural legaliste)

1. legalistic

legalist m (plural legaliști)

1. legalist