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monarchist

monarchist

3 7.4
A person who supports rule by a king or queen
  • noun
  • /ˈmɒnərkɪst/
translation icon : monárquico
  • As a lifelong monarchist, he dedicated his speeches to promoting the benefits of a hereditary rule.
  • monarchist and nationalist

Examples

  • 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?

  • 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

royalist
vsmonarchist
3 7.2

A person who supports rule by a king or queen

supports the system and principles of rule rather than specific royal authority

How Supportive

royalist
3 7.2
monarchist
3 7.4
sympathizer
37 4.8
bystander
84 3.4

Surface Forms

monarchist singular
monarchists plural

Morphology

monarchist = monarch (transparent) = monarch + ist

The agentive suffix '-ist' straightforwardly forms a person who supports or advocates a monarch or monarchy.

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.