leaguist

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English

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Etymology

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From league +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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leaguist (plural leaguists)

  1. A member or supporter of a league.
    • 1837 Mar, London Quarterly Review:
      In France the Leaguists began to denounce his rapacity and his nepotism; in Spain a Jesuit preached upon the lamentable state of the church.
    • 2004, Lieven De Winter, Huri Tursan, Regionalist Parties in Western Europe:
      Yet the tensions related to the centre-periphery cleavage have always remained the basis of the political action of the leaguists.

Adjective

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leaguist (comparative more leaguist, superlative most leaguist)

  1. Pertaining to membership of, or advocacy for, a league.
    • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 261:
      Sazonov supported Hartwig's pro-Serbian and leaguist policy on the Balkans, as a means both of countering Austrian designs and applying indirect pressure to the Ottomans.

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