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comparative more legalist, superlative most legalist
Of or related to legalism, in its various senses. examples
plural legalists
One who adheres to legalism, in its various senses. quotations examples
“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