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Definition of Royalists
1. royalist [n] - See also: royalist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Royalists
Literary usage of Royalists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"Before the end of the month no less than thirty-five royalists were confined at
Lynn alone. Against these prisoners no definite charge was brought. ..."
2. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Hannah More Macauley Tevelyan (1861)
"The royalists in every i part of the kingdom wer« disheartened : the ; spirit of the
... He saw precisely where the strength of the royalists lay, ..."
3. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline & Fall of the by William Russell, Charles Coote (1822)
"After some skirmishes, in which the royalists had the advantage, the two armies
met at Lansdown-hill, which Waller had fortified. There a pitched battle was ..."
4. The History of Modern Europe: with an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1837)
"There, being considerably reinforced, he so much surpassed the royalists in
number, that they durst no longer continue their march, or expose themselves to ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"There was no other Government possible than one analogous to that which had just
been overthrown, alien alike to the party of ultra-royalists and to that of ..."
6. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1827)
"Chateaubriand—influence of his eloquence in favour of the royalists.—Mission to
the Allied Sovereigns from the royalists. — Their answer. ..."
7. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1856)
"When the war had lasted a year, the advantage was decidedly with the royalists.
They were victorious both in the western and in the northern counties. ..."
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