monarchist
- noun
- /ˈmɒnərkɪst/
- As a lifelong monarchist, he dedicated his speeches to promoting the benefits of a hereditary rule.
- monarchist and nationalist
Examples
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What did the court of the King (the laureate was a populist monarchist) and the worldly intelligentsia know about him?
Fiction book (1991) -
I am a Catholic monarchist domiciled in California, and I voted early by mail.
Blog text (6) -
In your introduction to the Comedy, you call yourself a monarchist and a believer.
Fiction book (1992) -
Not participating, even if you are a committed monarchist, is disrespectful to your fellow citizens, past, present, and future.
Blog text (27) -
The existence of these monarchist propensities was recognized by Washington himself.
Blog text (22) -
Just looking at it now, we sit here, we think back, we're like, oh, boy, aren't those monarchists really cute?
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Which might help explain why there are many fewer monarchists (at least outside Hawaii).
Blog text (24) -
We both belong to churches that contain monarchists and socialists.
Blog text (22) -
Among monarchists, a gentleman was a member of the aristocracy by good birth and landed wealth, not through earned effort.
Academic text (2009) -
It belonged to the Duc de Blangis, an avowed monarchist.
Synonyms
A person who supports rule by a king or queen
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Monarchist comes from monarch, which has parts meaning 'one' (mono-) and 'rule' (-archy). So a monarchist is someone who supports 'rule by one', usually a king or queen.