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UK
/lˈɔɪəlˌɪst/
]
[ US /ˈɫɔɪəɫɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɔɪəɫɪst/ ]
NOUN
- a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt)
How To Use loyalist In A Sentence
- This dilemma perfectly sums up the impasse in all republican-loyalist negotiations.
- All of this was underpinned with ample confidence in the friendly disposition of much of the population-presumably loyalist at heart, simply waiting to welcome British military leaders to their hearthstones.
- Also, Mousavi has written a letter (in Farsi) to the Iranian security council saying that personnel from the Ahmadinejad-loyalist Basij militia are doffing their uniforms and attacking innocent people in the streets. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17)
- Experts from both sides of the Atlantic will discuss battlefield tactics, the contribution of Loyalists and Native Americans, the role of officers, and the real reasons why the British forces failed to achieve victory.
- He was one of three loyalists who went to Downing Street to plead with her to stay on.
- The old politics, which was decided by the solid blocks of party loyalists, belongs to the past. Times, Sunday Times
- Those opposed to power-sharing wanted an arrangement to maximize the loyalist vote.
- The choices they made also illustrate the divisions within the clergy and the gap between Loyalist clergy and revolutionary laity.
- Like his men, he wears a motley garb, -- part Spanish uniform, part costume of the Llanos; and he leans upon a lance, decorated with a black bannerol, which has carried death already to innumerable Loyalist hearts. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
- There were calls among Unionists and Nationalists for the Loyalist groups to follow suit, but Ervine said they did not feel under pressure to make a reciprocal gesture.