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What is a royalist?

What is a royalist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime
  2. a legitimist, a supporter of a particular royal line, especially one in danger of being dispossessed of a throne or actually dispossessed of such, and claiming to have the better claim to the throne on the basis of line of descent; especially:
    1. a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War
    2. a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution
    3. a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s
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As a Liberal, Adelard Godbout was a supporter of Mackenzie King, the prime minister of Canada, and a royalist in sympathy with the British cause.
If I had made these statements a year ago, a royalist mob would have probably garrotted me with bunting.
By the turn of the century, the royalist faction came to fear synarchy, whose influence had spread beyond esoteric groups.
In the event, parliament proceeded with a nauseous display of collective royalist sycophancy and mourning for Britain's past imperial grandeur.
The king then sought to organize a new royalist coalition around a programme of religious liberty for all.
Charles II, considering it hopeless to continue the war in an impoverished and exhausted land, led a Scots royalist army into England.

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