Noun: legalist
| Singular | legalist |
| Plural | legalists |
Sample Sentences
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“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. [1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Hammer of God”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:]
Nouns inflected like legalist
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From legal + -ist. Piecewise doublet of loyalist.