Meaning of legist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One skilled in the law.
2. A writer on law; also, a lawmaker, a legislator.

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Examples

“There were a number⟳ of lawyers of the older type⟳, men in sharp contrast and antagonism to the younger legists of the new American school.”

“‘King and kingdom,’ concurred d'Aguesseau, wisest of wise eighteenth-century legists, ‘form⟳ a single entity.’”

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