CONSTITUTIONALIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does constitutionalist mean? 

• CONSTITUTIONALIST (noun)
  The noun CONSTITUTIONALIST has 1 sense:

1. an advocate of constitutional government

  Familiarity information: CONSTITUTIONALIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSTITUTIONALIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An advocate of constitutional government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("constitutionalist" is a kind of...):

advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

Derivation:

constitutionalism (advocacy of a system of government according to constitutional principles)

constitutionalism (a constitutional system of government (usually with a written constitution))