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Royalist

Royalist

1 9.8
A person who supported King Charles I and the monarchy during the English Civil War
  • noun
  • /ˈrɔɪəlɪst/
translation icon : realista
  • Mr. Hopestill Capen was a Royalist, not a patriot, and therefore his shop prospered in stock.
  • Royalist Army
  • Royalist forces
  • Royalist soldiers

So this actually goes to the issue of, well, why did the royalists, why didn't they like Hobbes?

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Examples

  • I knew the Royalist soldier, a determined professional, not a bad sort of man.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The first of them to come to America, in the middle of the 17th century, was an officer of the Royalist Army.

    Academic text (1990)

  • A Royalist, Evelyn had spent most of the era of the Civil Wars abroad.

    Academic text (2011)

  • On the one side stand the Royalist party of King Charles, on the other, Cromwell's Parliamentary party, the Roundheads.

    Witchfinder General (1968)

  • One, we are grouped here at Naseby in preparation for a major assault on the Royalist armies.

    Witchfinder General (1968)

  • The war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists from 1642 to 1648.

    Blog text (32)

  • They then rapidly moved West, cornered the army of the the Royalist Army of the West at Langport in Somerset, and roundly defeated them.

  • Bordereau had fought in the counterrevolutionary war of Vendee with the Royalist army and, shortly after the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, was decorated with a medal by His Royal Highness, the Duke of Berry.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The Royalist supporters gathered to celebrate the restoration of the monarchy.

  • During the English Civil War, many Royalists fought fiercely for King Charles I.

Synonyms

Cavalier
vsRoyalist
  • Archaic
22 9.9

A person who supported King Charles I in the English Civil War

supports Charles I and the monarchy rather than the cause itself

Surface Forms

Royalist singular
Royalists plural

Morphology

Royalist = royal (transparent) = royal + ist

Formed by adding the agentive suffix '-ist' to 'royal' to mean a supporter of the monarchy, a directly inferable agentive formation.

Etymology

Royalist comes from the word royal, which comes from old words meaning 'king'. In the 1600s the name was used for people who supported King Charles I and the monarchy during the English Civil War. So a Royalist is someone who supports the king or queen.