royalist

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English

Etymology

From royal +‎ -ist, also capitalised as Royalist.

Adjective

royalist (comparative more royalist, superlative most royalist)

  1. royalistic
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 134, about Corfe Castle:
      For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder.

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Noun

royalist (plural royalists)

  1. A monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime.
  2. A legitimist, a supporter of a particular royal line, especially one in danger of being dispossessed of a throne or actually dispossessed of such, and claiming to have the better claim to the throne on the basis of line of descent; especially:
    1. (historical) a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War.
    2. (historical) a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution.
    3. (historical) a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s.

Synonyms

  • (supporter of a royal régime): basilean (obsolete)

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