0 a person who supports a ruling king or queen or who believes that a king or queen should rule their country: --
1 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: --
royalist sympathies
The protesters are a mix of royalist elites, generals, and businessmen.
Two features of the work enraged the royalists above all.
The elimination of independent local bodies on the municipal and on the provincial level, royalist publicists warned, had created an all-powerful government.
Wilcher elects to take a chronological approach to his subject, thereby avoiding anachronistic assumptions about ' royalists' as adherents to a single, unchanging ideology.
Attempts of the royalists to safeguard the monarchy from despotism by restoring a territorial nobility were inspired by an obsolete political model.
Unlike that famous liberal thinker, royalists propagated a way to preserve liberty that did not necessitate an appeal to a public spirit at all.
The shock of the king's death had enervated the royalist cause.
None the less, a number of royalist writers did contribute in print to the controversy.
But this did not prevent many of them from making an active contribution to the royalist war effort.
