royalist

comparative more royalist · superlative most royalist · alternative Royalist

1. Of or related to royalists or some royalist faction.First known use 1680

   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.

   1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 134, about Corfe Castle

2. Of or characterized by royalism.

   His father... was the son of Elijah C. West, who, being of royalist belief, found Massachusetts an uncongenial home during the Revolutionary period and therefore migrated to Nova Scotia.

   1898, ‘’Portrait and Biographical Record of Denver and Vicinity Colorado..., p. 1271

plural royalists · alternative Royalist

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. historicala Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War.
   2. historicala supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution.
   3. historicala supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s.

comparative more Royalist · superlative most Royalist

1. Alternative letter-case form of royalist, particularly in reference to specific royalist factions, especially (UK, historical) Cavalier supporters of the Stuart dynasty and (US, historical) Tory or Loyalist supporters of the British monarchy.

plural Royalists

1. Alternative letter-case form of royalist, particularly in reference to specific royalist factions, especially (UK, historical) Cavalier supporters of the Stuart dynasty and (US, historical) Tory or Loyalist supporters of the British monarchy.