royalist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From royal + -ist, also capitalised as Royalist.
Adjective
[edit]royalist (comparative more royalist, superlative most royalist)
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]royalist (plural royalists)
- A monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime.
- 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:
- (historical) a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War.
- (historical) a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution.
- (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
[edit]- (supporter of a royal régime): basilean (obsolete)
Antonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]supporter of monarchy
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