0 a person or group that strongly supports the government or ruler in power:
The rebel forces have been repeatedly attacked by loyalist troops.
1 in Northern Ireland, a person who believes that Northern Ireland should continue to be part of the UK
2 a person who supported the British government during the American Revolution: Tory
This political culture relied on the use of "selective nostalgia" to strengthen loyalist local authority but could also be used to challenge central authority.
In this effort the regime was assisted by collaborators, known as loyalists, drawn from the same communities as the insurgents.
For the organizers of the commemoration the oak carried a number of loyalist and patriotic accretions.
Loyalty rather than merit motivated his selection of high military personnel, the trusted loyalists drawn from among his course mates or his earlier military career.
By 1998, the view of the parties tied to loyalist paramilitaries was that a way out of the violence had to be found.
First, loyalists can employ tactics to communicate their objectives, frame political discourse, and shape political agenda.
In contrast, loyalists were able to continue their lives, expand their landholdings and grow cash-crops.
Nevertheless, there was a plebeian drift to his posture of political admiralship, even if it was most frequently articulated as a loyalist conceit.
