Examples of 'royalist' in a sentence

Meaning of "royalist"

Supportive of the principle of monarchy or a royal family, often opposed to revolutionary or republican movements (adjective)
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  • A monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal rĂ©gime.
  • A legitimist, a supporter of a particular royal line, especially one in danger of being dispossessed of a throne or actually dispossessed of such, and claiming to have the better claim to the throne on the basis of line of descent; especially:
  • a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution.
  • a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s.

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The royalist and his men fled.
He gets money from the royalist government.
No royalist groups wish to restore an absolute monarchy.
They are more royalist than the king.
Royalist troops promptly recaptured the airfield.
It destroyed the royalist cause in the north.
Royalist insurrections going on against the revolutionary government.
Jogiara is a village of very royalist behaviour nature.
Of the royalist troops had been killed or wounded.
The politics of these areas were extremely royalist.
The royalist generals debated their plans.
Other appointees represented various royalist factions.
Royalist refers to a supporter of a particular monarch.
He continued his service in the royalist army.
Royalist troops shot prisoners immediately.

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This is where the royalist prisoners are.
The royalist army began slowly edging backwards.
Banned for its royalist sentiments.
A royalist rebellion was gaining formidable dimensions in the west.
An outpost of one surrounded by royalist dogs and collaborators.
He fought royalist invasions on several occasions.
This appealed to his royalist sympathies.
The royalist party won only two seats in.
Now go and fill your fat royalist belly.
The combined royalist army pursued the comuneros.
None of the deputies stood as a royalist for elections.
He was an ardent royalist and opposed to the freedom of press.
The guerrilla fighters were eventually defeated by royalist forces.
Many royalist officers deserted to join the counterrevolutionaries.
Now go and fill your fat royalist bellies.
Editors of royalist newspapers were threatened and intimidated.
On horseback in the case of royalist insurrection.
Of the royalist party and struggle for democracy.
She continued to identify with the royalist cause.
Some smaller royalist parties remain loyal to the monarchy.
And you call yourself a royalist.
The advance of the royalist armies was known to the rebels.
They do not maintain the roads in this royalist district.
I am not a royalist or a royal watcher.
And the other was a royalist.
This is royalist country.
Niepce was the son of a wealthy family suspected of royalist sympathies.
To be a royalist is not an insult.
Government and sometimes a royalist.
He later showed royalist tendencies.
A number of subsequent battles were needed to finally defeat the royalist forces.
One can not be more royalist than the king.
To royalist villages.
He was a determined royalist and gallican.
Royalist officers abandoned their posts and fled via helicopter or vehicle.

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