Adjective: royalist
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more royalist |
| Superlative | most royalist |
Sample Sentences
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For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 134, about Corfe Castle:]
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His father... was the son of Elijah C. West, who, being of royalist belief, found Massachusetts an uncongenial home during the Revolutionary period and therefore migrated to Nova Scotia. [1898, ‘’Portrait and Biographical Record of Denver and Vicinity Colorado..., p. 1271]
Adjectives inflected like royalist
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From royal + -ist.
Verbs referencing "royalist"
Finnish Adjectives
rojalistinen.