royalist
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English[edit]
Etymology[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)
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Translations[edit]
supporter of monarchy
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