EGAVE

royalist

About 1.24 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of or related to royalists or some royalist faction. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. adjective Of or characterized by royalism.
  3. noun A monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime.
  4. noun 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: a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War. a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution. a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s.
  5. noun a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War.
  6. noun a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution.
  7. noun a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s.

Similar words

monarchist monarchy monarch royal privy raf cavalier legitimist dynast loyalist

Often followed by

and party army cause forces troops in side sympathies

Word family

Royalist Royalists royalists

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