Ormondian

comparative more Ormondian · superlative most Ormondian

1. In support of or pertaining to Thomas Butler, especially as regards the faction that supported him in the Desmond Rebellions.

   The Ormondian golden age!

   1812, Francis Plowden, An Historical Letter to the Rev. Charles O'Conor, page 74

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   So wounded Desmond borne from field Captive upon Ormondian shield, Hearing– " Where now is Desmond ? " – shrilled, " Where but in proper place of fear, Still on the necks of Butlers, here.”

   1898, The Epic of Humanity, Or, The Quest of the Ideal, page 29

   While O'Neill, the defender of Arras and the hero of Benburb, was ordered off to employ his arms in Connaught lest his presence should interfere with the designs of the new council, which had now grown quite Ormondian.

   1899, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, page 110

   We think it our duty to let you know that all the Popish party in Ireland and the Septs and Ormondian party are like to join as one man.

   1988, Oliver Cromwell, Wilbur Cortez Abbott, The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, page 154

plural Ormondians

1. A supporter of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond.

   Attacked in front and rear, the Ormondians were piked and shot, and many were left mangled along the pass.

   1914, John O'Hanlon, History of the Queen's County, page 475

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   I do not find how his excellency can be justly censured for favouring none but high-church, high-flyers, termagants, laudists, sacheverellians, tip-top-gallon-men, jaocobites, tantivys, anti-hanoverians, friends to popery and the pretender and to arbitrary power, disobligers of England, breakers of DEPENDENCY, inflamers of quarrels between the two nations, public incendiaries, enemies to the king and kingdoms, haters of TRUE protestants, laurel-men, annists, complainers of the nation's poverty, ormondians, iconoclasts, anti-glorious-memorists, anti-revolutioners, white-rosalists, tenth-a-junians, and the like; when, by a fair state of the account, the balance, I conceive, seems to lie on the other side.

   1784, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, page 256

   As the Ormondians conveyed him from the field, stretched on a bier, his supporters exclaimed, with a natural triumph, " Where is now the great lord of Desmond!"

   1814, Thomas Leland, The History of Ireland, page 238

   Desmond's road to Youghal was also open, but he preferred the middle course of returning to Lismore, where his auxiliaries were, with whose help he might hope clearly to outnumber the Ormondians, who refreshed themselves, and continued the even tenor of their way southwards to the ford at Affane.

   1885, Richard Bagwell, Ireland Under the Tudors, page 86