royalist
noun
a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
royalistic
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a word derived from
royalist.
Example Sentences
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With his royalistic tendencies he may not have breathed quite freely in the atmosphere of the Commonwealth, and no doubt many tribulations fell to his lot, but among them was not poverty.
From Ponkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
One or two cockades had been roughly torn and thrown into the mud, and the wearer unpleasantly ill-used if he persisted in any royalistic demonstration.
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
As previously intimated, the difficulty with the French legislative bodies is that royalistic precedents and rules run side by side with republican principles, and the result is a mongrel institution divided, too often, against itself.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various
Ages of ingrained royalistic principles were shocked and shattered by the enormity of the thing the man she loved had asked of her, and yet cold reason told her that it was the only way.
From The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs
