Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Support of monarchy or of a particular monarch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principles or cause of royalty; attachment to a royal government or cause.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the principles or conduct of royalists.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Impassioned
allegiance to oradvocacy of theestablishment ,maintenance , and/orinterests of a particularking , royalhouse , orkingly dynasty ; sometimes extended to the same of anon-royal (i.e.,grand ducal ,imperial , or other)family orsovereign ; often contrasted withmonarchism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun adherence or attachment to a monarchy or to the principle of monarchal government
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Examples
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Oh and by the way, if these comments bring you some sort of "royalism" at work, shame on you and your boss.
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You can chalk this up to the current political environment if you wish, but I am glad FDR was not a sell out when he showed real courage in the face of economic royalism.
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We'll be all over the service, the procession, the dress, the kiss, the fly-past, the parties – and all the rights and wrongs of royalism and republicanism –right here, all day.
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That it might have been different can be seen in Israel today, where an unprecedented popular revolt against what FDR called "economic royalism" is shaking the political and economic establishment to its core.
MJ Rosenberg: Fight The Power: Israeli Demonstrators Show The Way MJ Rosenberg 2011
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That it might have been different can be seen in Israel today, where an unprecedented popular revolt against what FDR called "economic royalism" is shaking the political and economic establishment to its core.
MJ Rosenberg: Fight The Power: Israeli Demonstrators Show The Way MJ Rosenberg 2011
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The first is that when one thinks of the important values of the LotR, royalism doesn't even break the top ten.
MIND MELD: What are the Most Controversial SF/F Novels of the Past & Present? 2008
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A country founded on anti-royalism and defined by anti-aristocrat political rhetoric will naturally profess disgust for, say, Ivy League presidential candidates and incumbent congressmen -- just as it will loudly claim to despise Duke basketball and Yankee baseball and Cowboy football and ... you get the point.
David Sirota: These (Blue) Devils Wear Privilege David Sirota 2010
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A country founded on anti-royalism and defined by anti-aristocrat political rhetoric will naturally profess disgust for, say, Ivy League presidential candidates and incumbent congressmen -- just as it will loudly claim to despise Duke basketball (and Yankee baseball and Cowboy football and ... you get the point).
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A country founded on anti-royalism and defined by anti-aristocrat political rhetoric will naturally profess disgust for, say, Ivy League presidential candidates and incumbent congressmen -- just as it will loudly claim to despise Duke basketball (and Yankee baseball and Cowboy football and ... you get the point).
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India is still displaying its splendid royalism of the bygone era in the form of its Luxury Trains running to the famous heritage sites of India.
Embroidered Trek | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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