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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
monarchist
noun
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▪ 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 views were closely akin to those of the monarchists, and he ran into immediate opposition ii, Congress.
▪ Much of our political life is founded upon assumptions grounded in our monarchist heritage.
▪ The monarchists and conservatives claimed that all national and public figures and their acts should always be subject to scrutiny and criticism.
▪ The monarchists, therefore, decided to turn their support to the Santanistas in an effort to regain control.
▪ The discontent of the monarchists and Falangists was as nothing by comparison with the rage felt by the regime's left-wing opponents.
▪ Whether that will arouse great controversy among any but the most convinced monarchists is doubtful.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monarchist

Monarchist \Mon"arch*ist\, n. [Cf. F. monarchiste.] An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
monarchist

1640s, from monarchy + -ist. Related: Monarchistic.\n

Wiktionary
monarchist

n. An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy.

WordNet
monarchist

n. an advocate of the principles of monarchy [syn: royalist]

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.