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royalism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Royalism \Roy"al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. royalisme.] the principles or conduct of royalists.
Wiktionary
n. Impassioned allegiance to or advocacy of the establishment, maintenance, and/or interests of a particular king, royal house, or kingly dynasty; sometimes extended to the same of a non-royal (i.e., grand ducal, imperial, or other) family or sovereign; often contrasted with (term monarchism English).
WordNet
n. adherence or attachment to a monarchy or to the principle of monarchal government
Usage examples of "royalism".
American royalism would have been inconceivable without the determination of the general and his closest aides to exonerate the emperor of all war responsibility, even of moral responsibility for allowing the atrocious war to be waged in his name.
Monsieur de la Baudraye being won over to the Government, Sancerre would be more than ever a rotten borough of royalism.
A number of Constitutionalists or neutrals have done the same thing, some through a horror of civil war and a spirit of conciliation, and others through fear of persecution and of being taxed with royalism.
And, that none of the middle or upper class may escape, the edict subjects to special rigor, supplementary taxes, and arbitrary arrest, not alone property-holders and fund-holders, but again all persons designated under the following heads, - aristocrats, Feuillants, moderates, Girondists, federalists, muscadins, the superstitious, fanatics the abettors of royalism, of superstition and of federation, monopolists, jobbers, egoists, "suspects " of incivism, and, generally, all who are indifferent to the Revolution, of which local committees are to draw up the lists.
The party in powerthe Conservative Republicansso far right as to verge upon royalism, had acquired enough pledged theocratic votes to make them smug about the election.