🏛️ Support for authority 🇬🇧 Support for union

loyalism

8.0

Support for staying united with Great Britain, especially in Northern Ireland

noun

: lealismo

Support for loyalism in Northern Ireland often focuses on the desire to remain part of Great Britain.

And he's actually going to be doing a studying, a study on loyalism.

Examples

Many of the community leaders expressed their support for loyalism during the discussions.
It was the heartland of Loyalism and Loyalist terrorism.

Blog text (1)
It was these different political parties (including the political wings of both militant Republicanism and Loyalism), which, together with a number of other smaller parties and the British and Irish governments, completed the tortuous negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

Academic text (2006)
The group held a rally to show their commitment to loyalism and the union with Britain.

Synonyms

allegiance

vsloyalism

155 5.6

Strong support for a group, person, or country

is support for keeping a political union with an established authority

ligeance

vsloyalism

Archaic

9.9

Loyalty to a ruler, government, or cause

is support for maintaining a political union rather than historical loyalty

Antonyms

separatism

4 7.8

Belief or action of a group to leave a country and form their own state

disunion

1 8.1

A situation when people or groups are not united

How Loyal

devotion

39 3.9

loyalism

8.0

allegiance

155 5.6

backing

1 2.6

support

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

loyalism singular

loyalisms plural

Morphology

loyalism = loyal (transparent) = loyal + ism

The suffix '-ism' is commonly used to denote a belief or ideology, making the word's meaning directly derived from 'loyal'.

Etymology

Loyalism is made from loyal ('faithful') and the ending -ism ('belief or support', like patriotism). In places such as Northern Ireland, loyalism has come to mean support for staying in union with Great Britain, so the word describes people and groups who back that political link.