constitutionalist
adjEtymology From constitutional + -ist.
1
Of or relating to constitutionalism or its adherents.
constitutionalist
nounEtymology From constitutional + -ist.
1
A person who adheres to the philosophy of constitutionalism.
- It was now getting late, and Mr. Morland summoned them to depart; for he was a constitutionalist in the best sense of the word. It was his own constitution to which he attended.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 248:
2
A person who is expert in constitutional law.
- Derived terms
- anticonstitutionalist
- Related terms
- constitutionalism, constitutionality