royalist

Meanings

1. royalistic

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:
3. a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War.
4. a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution.
5. a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s.

Etymology

From royal + -ist, also capitalised as Royalist.