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This time, the King’s favor had turned against them, and the army and royalist militias were authorized to put down the unrest with lethal force.
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In France, no politician outside the circle of fringe far-right royalists is supposed to talk about missing the king.
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Corfe Castle in Dorset, a royalist bastion demolished during the English Civil War in 1645 on orders of Parliament, is seen in a 1764 painting by John Inigo Richards as a falling-apart curiosity viewed by travelers.
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After successful quelling a royalist riot in Paris in 1795, Napoleon was given command of the French army.
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The yellow shirts, including royalists and middle-class urbanites in southern Thailand, have long opposed the siblings’ populist rule.
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First Known Use of royalist
1640
ROYALIST Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of royalist for English Language Learners
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: a person who believes that a country should have a king or queen or who supports a particular king or queen
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