monarchist
He remains a staunch royalist.
French royalists launched ceremonies to bury the heart of Louis XVII, the boy king who died in prison in 1795.
The new Assembly was mainly composed of conservatives, royalists and moderate republicans.

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Royalty, aristocracy & titles
accede to something
accession
anointed
anti-monarchical
anti-monarchist
duke
dukedom
earl
earldom
emir
miss
mister
monarch
monarchist
morganatic
royally
Rt. Hon.
Shah
sheikh
sire
royalist
adjective
uk /ˈrɔɪ.ə.lɪst/ us /ˈrɔɪ.ə.lɪst/
relating to royalists(= people who support a ruling king or queen or who believe that a king or queen should rule their country), or to their ideas:
The protesters are a mix of royalist elites, generals, and businessmen.
royalist sympathies
The castle could never again be used as a royalist stronghold.
The two met as royalist exiles in Paris.
The staunchly royalist party won 44 of the 47 seats in the new parliament.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Royalty, aristocracy & titles
accede to something
accession
anointed
anti-monarchical
anti-monarchist
duke
dukedom
earl
earldom
emir
miss
mister
monarch
monarchist
morganatic
royally
Rt. Hon.
Shah
sheikh
sire

Examples of royalist

royalist
Many of those occupying the other royalist camp adopted not dissimilar views.
While pro-aristocratic attitudes became identified with the royalist party, their liberal opponents became ever more criticial of aristocratic liberalism.
Petitioners recognized the influential position the abbess had obtained as a result of her own patronage of the exiled and impecunious royalists.
Wilcher shows how individual royalists' methods ranged from the use of unconventional topoi to the employment of genres which they had previously neglected.
There could be little room for argument among royalists on the nature of royal power or on the obligation to obey it.
For most royalists such a settlement promised only a limp, powerless church and a disorienting religious pluralism.
Not surprisingly, chancery, the premier equity court, received the most business from royalists in pursuit of lost rents.
But this did not prevent many of them from making an active contribution to the royalist war effort.
None the less, a number of royalist writers did contribute in print to the controversy.
The shock of the king's death had enervated the royalist cause.
Unlike that famous liberal thinker, royalists propagated a way to preserve liberty that did not necessitate an appeal to a public spirit at all.
Attempts of the royalists to safeguard the monarchy from despotism by restoring a territorial nobility were inspired by an obsolete political model.
Wilcher elects to take a chronological approach to his subject, thereby avoiding anachronistic assumptions about ' royalists' as adherents to a single, unchanging ideology.
The elimination of independent local bodies on the municipal and on the provincial level, royalist publicists warned, had created an all-powerful government.
Two features of the work enraged the royalists above all.
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