Royalist (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
  2. a Cavalier adherent of Charles I of England.
  3. a loyalist in the American Revolution; Tory.
  4. an adherent of the house of Bourbon in France.
adjective
  1. of or relating to royalists: royalist sympathies.
noun
  1. a supporter of a monarch or monarchy, esp a supporter of the Stuarts during the English Civil War
  2. an extreme reactionary or conservative
adjective Also: royalistic
  1. of, characteristic of, or relating to royalists
Royalist (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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