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UK
/ɹˈɔɪəlˌɪst/
]
[ US /ˈɹɔɪəɫɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɔɪəɫɪst/ ]
NOUN
- a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War
How To Use Royalist In A Sentence
- Their pastorals, both published in 1651, offered choices to Royalists in the aftermath of the crushing defeat at Worcester.
- The first two reveal an essentially conservative, royalist agenda.
- Within two hours of fighting, the royalist army was routed and Montrose fled to the hills. Times, Sunday Times
- The period after the Restoration of 1660 offered many opportunities for royalists well-connected enough to seize them.
- Unable to present a viable alternative, the royalists were outmanoeuvred, sidelined and, in 1998, defeated.
- `The Roundhead apprentices turned back the Royalists here -- hence ``Turn'em Green ' -- it was the site of a battle. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
- On one side was the king and those who supported him - the Royalist party, also called the Cavaliers.
- Yugoslavia as it emerged from World War Two was the product of a popular movement against the Nazi occupation and Serbian royalist forces.
- Here he was in the back of beyond, a lone American with a Beatles haircut advising a paramilitary team composed of anticommunist, antiroyalist Hmong tribesman who cut off the ears of their dead enemies. Looking Back On the Spy Life
- But Carteret is a good business man as well as a royalist, and does nothing until he sees how he is to be paid for it. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)