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monarchist

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Word definitions for monarchist in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monarchist \Mon"arch*ist\, n. [Cf. F. monarchiste.] An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ By the beginning of 1941 it was the monarchist lobby which seemed most in need of this reminder. ▪ He was howled down by monarchists of right and left, and the house switched its attention to another speaker. ▪ His political ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an advocate of the principles of monarchy [syn: royalist ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from monarchy + -ist . Related: Monarchistic .\n

Usage examples of monarchist.

The Bavarian cabinet of Eugen von Knilling proclaimed its own state of emergency on September 26 and named the right-wing monarchist and former premier Gustav von Kahr as State Commissioner with dictatorial powers.

Nor was the officer corps purged of its monarchist, antirepublican frame of mind.

Nor had Adams proven himself a monarchist, as some like Maclay kept insisting.

But as any adverse or critical comment on Washington, any ridicule at all, would have been considered unacceptable at this stage, Adams served as a convenient target for mockery and humor, and would again, just as he would be subject to the easiest, most damaging of smear words: monarchist.

The suspicion that Adams was a monarchist at heart grew stronger, and understandably, as in his Defence of the Constitutions of Government he did seem to lean in that direction.

Further, in what he had written to Madison, and in what he had said in his note to the printer, Jefferson had tagged Adams with being both mentally unsound and a monarchist, the two charges most commonly and unjustly made against him for the rest of his life.

Nikolai Gumilev was arrested by the Petrograd Cheka, jailed for a few days, and then shot without trial on charges, which were almost certainly false, of belonging to a monarchist conspiracy.

The Law as laid down by the deuteronomic school reflected a monarchist system.

Henry Ford, it was noted, ignored the Hohenzollern monarchists and put his money into the Hitlerite revolutionary movement.

The Austrian monarchists have fallen foul of the German left-wingers, whom they accuse of being pan-Germans in disguise, and this delights the Blimps, who are always trying to manoeuvre their two enemies, Germany and Socialism, into the same place.

Seeing themselves as representing the true spirit of republican ideals, Jefferson, Madison, Freneau, and others allied with them had begun calling themselves Republicans, thus implying that the Federalists were not, but rather monarchists, or monocrats, as Jefferson preferred to say.

But she knew -- along with millions of other old ladies and closet monarchists -- that a Once and Future King had a duty to keep up the act.

Why was it resolutely supported by conservatives, monarchists and religious fundamentalists?

An officer, one of the few monarchists whom Jundrak had not been able to eliminate from the military administration, jumped up.

Jefferson, Madison, Freneau, and others allied with them had begun calling themselves Republicans, thus implying that the Federalists were not, but rather monarchists, or monocrats, as Jefferson preferred to say.