legalist

adj
/ˈliː.ɡə.lɪst/UK/ˈli.ɡə.lɪst/CA/ˈliː.ɡə.lɪst/

Etymology

From legal + -ist. Piecewise doublet of loyalist.

  1. learned borrowing from lēgālis
  2. suffixed as legalist — “legal + ist

Definitions

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

  2. One who adheres to legalism, in its various senses.

    • “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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA