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Romanist

noun Romanists

  1. derogatory, often A Roman Catholic. This is enough & too much, that when the Romaniſts doe boaſt that their iuriſdiction is ſpirituall, it is eaſy to ſhewe that there is nothing more contrary to the order inſtitute of Chriſte, and that it hath no more likeneſſe to the auncient cuſtome than darkneſſe hath to light.
  2. A scholar of Roman law and jurisprudence. The foundations of present views of Roman civil procedure were laid by the Austrian Romanist Moriz Wlassak [...]
  3. A scholar of Roman history and culture.
  4. A scholar of Romance languages; a Romanicist. The principal magazines devoted to the subject are—Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Literatur (ed. Wolff, Ebert, and Lembcke), later only für romanische Literatur; Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen (ed. Herrig), of a more popular character; Romania (a quarterly, ed. Gaston Paris and P
  5. A painter of the 16th century Romanist school.
  6. Ireland, derogatory, historical someone perceived to be in favor of Rome Rule in Ireland.

adjective more Romanist · most Romanist

  1. Pertaining to Roman law and jurisprudence. Even in England the Romanist tradition not only remained alive but received strong new impulses in Oxford and Cambridge, where the teaching of the "civil"—i.e., Roman—law was never interrupted.
  2. Pertaining to the school of thought which emphasises the continuity of legal and cultural institutions between Rome and later medieval Europe, downplaying the role of external influences or innovation in the decline of the Roman Empire. The 'Germanist' view has been countered with the 'Romanist' or 'continuity' view, which holds that the Germanic barbarians created little that was new.

    Similar: continuity · Opposite: Germanist

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@misc{romanist_2026,
  title = {Romanist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/romanist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}