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Royalism  n.  The principles or conduct of royalists.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Royalism" Quotes from Famous Books



... formidable, and you will have everything—intellect, nobility, and good looks; nothing will be out of your reach. So if you are a Liberal, let it be simply for the moment, so that you can make a better bargain for your Royalism." ...
— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac

... II.!—Hurrah for General Monk!'" And his voice mingled with the voices of the hundreds of spectators, over which it sounded for a moment. Then, the better to play the devoted man, he took off his hat and waved it in the air. Some one seized his arm in the very height of his expansive royalism. (In 1660 that was so termed which we ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... should be killed because kingship and freedom cannot live together. Under certain circumstances this vindication and ennoblement might act as an incitement to an actual assassination as well as to Plutarchian republicanism; for it is one thing to advocate republicanism or royalism: it is quite another to make a hero of Brutus or Ravaillac, or a heroine of Charlotte Corday. Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles. The very people who would have ...
— The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet • George Bernard Shaw

... could see nothing but streaming across the wall at his back, abundant and misty, unearthly and adorable, a mass of tawny hair that seemed to have hot sparks tangled in it. Another nuisance was the atmosphere of Royalism, of Legitimacy, that pervaded the room, thin as air, intangible, as though no Legitimist of flesh and blood had ever existed to the man's mind except perhaps myself. He, of course, was just simply a banker, a very distinguished, a very influential, ...
— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad



Words linked to "Royalism" :   adhesion, royalist, attachment, adherence



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