a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War
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Royalist \Roy"al*ist\, n. [Cf. F. royaliste.] An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government.
Where Ca'ndish fought, the Royalists prevailed. --Waller.
Not for the first time, London seems determined to be more royalist than the king, or rather more Atlanticist than Washington. Britain's desire to reintegrate France into the common defence of Europe is, if sincere, entirely laudable.
The cottage was a royalist powder magazine in the civil war and was converted into a home in 1860, when it might also have been a prison.
The bright light of Hardman's archival research dispels the fogs of revolutionary and royalist propaganda.