Yorkist

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• The Yorkist supporters rallied in the streets, waving banners emblazoned with the white rose.

• Henry's seemingly eternal willingness to forgive, not to hold past offenses against the Yorkists, and to accommodate York did ultimately enable the defeated Yorkists to recover from their discomfiture and prevail.

  Academic text (2011)

• And the House of York had always used the symbol of the white rose and we see it all the time in Yorkist iconography.

  The Game of Crowns: The Tudors (2023)

• When the Yorkist faction gained the ascendancy, Sir Thomas was clapped into prison.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Somerset didn't want to descend from the high ground and waited for the Yorkists to approach.

• Somerset didn't want to descend from the high ground and waited for the Yorkists to approach.

• He was fortunate to survive the shower of Yorkist arrows and cannonballs at the First Battle of St Albans.

  Academic text (2011)

• As only the second monarch of a fragile new dynasty that had rescued England from three decades of internecine conflict between Yorkists and Lancastrians, it was his duty and his destiny to beget a glorious line of Tudor kings.

  Academic text (2010)

• Henry's seemingly eternal willingness to forgive, not to hold past offenses against the Yorkists, and to accommodate York did ultimately enable the defeated Yorkists to recover from their discomfiture and prevail.

  Academic text (2011)

• The play depicted a fierce conflict between the Yorkists and their rivals, illustrating the turmoil of the time.

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Etymology